Deuteronomy 6
1 “This is the command, along with the statutes and ordinances, that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, so that you may carry it out in the land you are entering to take possession of.
2 Then you will fear the LORD your God and keep all his statutes and commandments that I am commanding you—you, your son, and your grandson—all the days of your life, so that your days may be long.
3 Listen, Israel, and be careful to do this, so that all may go well with you and you may greatly increase, as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
4 Listen, Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one.
5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6 These words that I am commanding you today must be in your heart.
7 Teach them diligently to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.
8 Tie them as a sign on your hand, and let them be like bands between your eyes.
9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
10 When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give you, with great and good cities that you did not build,
11 houses filled with every good thing that you did not fill, cisterns dug out that you did not dig, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant, and you eat and are satisfied,
12 be careful not to forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
13 Fear the LORD your God, serve him, and swear by his name.”
14 “Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
15 For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God may burn against you, and he may destroy you from the face of the earth.
16 Do not put the LORD your God to the test, as you did at Massah.
17 Carefully keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his testimonies and statutes, which he commanded you.
18 Do what is right and good in the LORD’s sight, so that all may go well with you, and you may enter and take possession of the good land that the LORD swore to your ancestors.
19 He will drive out all your enemies before you, as the LORD promised.
20 In the future your son will ask you, ‘What are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD our God commanded you?’
21 You will answer your son, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
22 The LORD performed great and terrible signs and wonders in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes.
23 He brought us out from there to bring us here and give us the land he swore to our ancestors.
24 The LORD commanded us to carry out all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, so that he might keep us alive, as we are today.
25 And it will be righteousness for us if we carefully keep and carry out this whole command before the LORD our God, as he commanded us.’”
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