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Deuteronomy Chapter 6

¹Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess; ²that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you- you, your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. ³Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. ⁵Love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. ⁶These words, which I command you today, will be on your heart; ⁷and you will teach them diligently to your children, and will talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. ⁸Bind them for a sign on your hand, and they'll be for symbols between your eyes. ⁹Write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.

¹⁰When Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and fine cities which you didn't build, ¹¹houses full of all good things which you didn't fill, cisterns dug out which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn't plant, and you'll eat and be full; ¹²then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. ¹³Fear Yahweh your God, serve him, and swear by his name. ¹⁴Don't go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, ¹⁵for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, for fear that Yahweh your God's anger be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. ¹⁶Don't tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah. ¹⁷Diligently keep Yahweh your God's commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. ¹⁸Do what is right and good in Yahweh's sight, so that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to [give] your fathers, ¹⁹to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has said.

²⁰When your son asks you in time to come, saying, "What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances mean which Yahweh our God has commanded you?" ²¹then tell your son, "We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; ²²and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our [very] eyes; ²³and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore [to give] to our fathers. ²⁴Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today. ²⁵It will be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us."