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, statutes, and decrees that Yahweh your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you might keep them in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess;

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.

so that you might honor Yahweh your God, so as to keep all his statutes and commandments that I am commanding you—you, your sons, and your sons' sons, all the days of your lives, so that your 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.

Therefore listen to them, Israel, and keep them, so that it may go well with you, so that you may greatly multiply, in a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you would do.

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

Listen, Israel: Yahweh our God is one.

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

You will love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

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

The words that I am commanding you today will be in your 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 you will diligently teach them to your children; you will talk about them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.

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

You will tie them as a sign upon your hand, and they will serve as frontlets between your eyes.

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

You will write them on the doorposts of your house and on your 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,

When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you, with large and very good cities that you did 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.

and houses full of all kinds of good things that you did not make, cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant, you will eat and be satisfied—

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 be careful so that you do not forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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

You will honor Yahweh your God; him you will worship, and you will swear by his name.

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

You will not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around 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 Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God—if you do, the anger of Yahweh your God will be kindled against you and he will destroy you from the surface of the earth.

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

You will not test Yahweh your God as you tested him at Massah.

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

You will diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, his solemn commands, and his statutes, that he has commanded you.

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,

You will do what is right and good in the sight of Yahweh, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land that Yahweh swore to your fathers,

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

to drive out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has said.

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?

When your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What are the covenant decrees, the statutes, and the other decrees that Yahweh our God 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 you will say to your son, 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; Yahweh 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 he displayed signs and wonders, great and severe, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, 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 there, so that he might bring us in, to give us the land that 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;

Yahweh commanded us to always keep all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God for our good, so that he might keep us alive, as we are today.

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

If we keep all these commands before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us, this will be our righteousness.'