< Deuteronomy 6 >
1 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which YHWH your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
These now are the commandements, ordinances, and lawes, which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that ye might doe them in the land whither ye go to possesse it:
2 that you might fear YHWH your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
That thou mightest feare the Lord thy God, and keepe all his ordinances, and his commandements which I commaund thee, thou, and thy sonne, and thy sonnes sonne all the dayes of thy life, euen that thy dayes may be prolonged.
3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as YHWH, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Heare therefore, O Israel, and take heede to doe it, that it may go well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily in the land that floweth with milke and hony, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
4 Hear, Israel: YHWH is our God, YHWH is one.
Heare, O Israel, The Lord our God is Lord onely,
5 And you shall love YHWH your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
And thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy might.
6 These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;
And these wordes which I commaund thee this day, shalbe in thine heart.
7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
And thou shalt rehearse them continually vnto thy children, and shalt talke of them when thou tariest in thine house, and as thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest downe, and when thou risest vp:
8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes.
9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.
Also thou shalt write them vpon ye postes of thine house, and vpon thy gates.
10 It shall be, when YHWH your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you did not build,
And when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob, to giue to thee, with great and goodly cities which thou buildedst not,
11 and houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, and cisterns dug out, which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant, and you shall eat and be full;
And houses full of all maner of goods which thou filledst not, and welles digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards and oliue trees which thou plantedst not, and when thou hast eaten and art full,
12 then beware lest you forget YHWH, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Beware least thou forget the Lord, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 You shall fear YHWH your God; and you shall serve him only, and you shall cling to him, and take oaths by his name.
Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God, and serue him, and shalt sweare by his Name.
14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;
Ye shall not walke after other gods, after any of the gods of the people which are round about you,
15 for YHWH your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of YHWH your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
(For the Lord thy God is a ielous God among you: ) least the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from the face of the earth.
16 Do not test YHWH your God, as you tested him at Massah.
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye did tempt him in Massah:
17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of YHWH your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
But ye shall keepe diligently the commandements of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee,
18 You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of YHWH; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which YHWH swore to your fathers,
And thou shalt doe that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that thou mayest prosper, and that thou mayest go in, and possesse that good land which the Lord sware vnto thy fathers,
19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as YHWH has spoken.
To cast out all thine enemies before thee, as the Lord hath sayd.
20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, "What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which YHWH our God has commanded you mean?"
When thy sonne shall aske thee in time to come, saying, What meane these testimonies, and ordinances, and Lawes, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?
21 then you shall tell your son, "We were Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and YHWH brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
Then shalt thou say vnto thy sonne, We were Pharaohs bondmen in Egypt: but the Lord brought vs out of Egypt with a mightie hand.
22 and YHWH showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
And the Lord shewed signes and wonders great and euill vpon Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his housholde, before our eyes,
23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
And brought vs out from thence, to bring vs in, and to giue vs the land which he sware vnto our fathers.
24 YHWH commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear YHWH our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.
Therefore the Lord hath commanded vs, to doe all these ordinances, and to feare the Lord our God, that it may goe euer well with vs, and that he may preserue vs aliue as at this present.
25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before YHWH our God, as he has commanded us."
Moreouer, this shall be our righteousnes before the Lord our God, if we take heede to keepe all these commandements, as he hath commanded vs.