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,

NOW these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go 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 mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and 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 therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth 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.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

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 thine 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 teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

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 for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

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

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

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 it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

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.

And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

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.

Then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

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

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

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

Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which 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.

(For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

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

Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

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

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, 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 thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers,

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

To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord 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 asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

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;

Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:

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

And the Lord shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:

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, to give us the land which he sware unto 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 us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, 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 it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.