Deuteronomy 6

1 “And this [is] the command, the statutes and the judgments which your God YHWH has commanded to teach you to do in the land which you are passing over there to possess it,

These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it:

2 so that you fear your God YHWH, to keep all His statutes and His commands which I am commanding you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all [the] days of your life, and so that your days are prolonged.

That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy grandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.

3 And you have heard, O Israel, and observed to do [them], that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply exceedingly, as YHWH, God of your fathers, has spoken to you, [in] the land flowing with milk and honey.

Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk and honey.

4 Hear, O Israel: Our God YHWH—YHWH [is] one!

Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

5 And you have loved your God YHWH with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.

6 And these words which I am commanding you today have been on your heart,

And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:

7 and you have repeated them to your sons, and spoken of them in your sitting in your house, and in your walking in the way, and in your lying down, and in your rising up,

And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

8 and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes,

And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.

9 and you have written them on doorposts of your house and on your gates.

And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house.

10 And it has been, when your God YHWH brings you into the land which He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to you great and good cities which you have not built,

And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,

11 and houses full of all good things which you have not filled, and wells dug which you have not dug, vineyards and olive-yards which you have not planted, that you have eaten and been satisfied.

Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant,

12 Take heed to yourself lest you forget YHWH who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.

And thou shalt have eaten and be full:

13 You fear your God YHWH, and you serve Him, and you swear by His Name.

Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his name.

14 You do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who [are] around you,

You shall not go after the strange gods of all the nations, that are round about you:

15 for your God YHWH [is] a zealous God in your midst—lest the anger of your God YHWH burns against you, and He has destroyed you from off the face of the ground.

Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of thee: lest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and take thee away from the face of the earth.

16 You do not try your God YHWH as you tried [Him] in Massah.

Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.

17 You diligently keep the commands of your God YHWH, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you,

Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and ceremonies which he hath commanded thee.

18 and you have done that which is right and good in the eyes of YHWH, so that it is well with you, and you have gone in and possessed the good land which YHWH has sworn to your fathers,

And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the goodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy fathers,

19 to drive away all your enemies from your presence, as YHWH has spoken.

That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath spoken.

20 When your son asks you hereafter, saying, What [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments which our God YHWH has commanded you?

And when thy son shall ask thee tomorrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?

21 Then you have said to your son, We have been servants of Pharaoh in Egypt, and YHWH brings us out of Egypt by a high hand;

Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

22 and YHWH gives signs and wonders, great and severe, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;

And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,

23 and He has brought us out from there, in order to bring us in, to give to us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.

And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and give us the land, concerning which he swore to our fathers.

24 And YHWH commands us to do all these statutes, to fear our God YHWH, for good to ourselves [for] all the days, to keep us alive, as [at] this day;

And the Lord commanded that we should do all these ordinances, and should fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the days of our life, as it is at this day.

25 and it is righteousness for us when we observe to do all this command before our God YHWH, as He has commanded us.”

And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.