Deuteronomy 6

1 Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:

And these [are] the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgments, as many as the Lord our God gave commandment to teach you to do so in the land on which ye enter to inherit it.

2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

That ye may fear the Lord your God, keep ye all his ordinances, and his commandments, which I command thee to-day, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, all the days of thy life, that ye may live many days.

3 So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord God of thy fathers said that he would give thee a land flowing with milk and honey: and these [are] the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord commanded the children of Israel in the wilderness, when they had gone forth from the land of Egypt.

4 Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:

Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord.

5 And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and all thy strength.

6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;

And these words, all that I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart and in thy soul.

7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

And thou shalt teach them to thy children, and thou shalt speak of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up.

8 Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

And thou shalt fasten them for a sign upon thy hand, and it shall be immoveable before thine eyes.

9 Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.

And ye shall write them on the lintels of your houses and of your gates.

10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware to thy fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and beautiful cities which thou didst not build,

11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

houses full of all good things which thou didst not fill, wells dug in the rock which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards which thou didst not plant, then having eaten and been filled,

12 Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God that brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

13 Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve; and thou shalt cleave to him, and by his name thou shalt swear.

14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

Go ye not after other gods of the gods of the nations round about you;

15 For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.

for the Lord thy God in the midst of thee [is] a jealous God, lest the Lord thy God be very angry with thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.

Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as ye tempted him in the temptation.

17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

Thou shalt by all means keep the commands of the Lord thy God, the testimonies, and the ordinances, which he commanded thee.

18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

And thou shalt do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord thy God, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and inherit the good land, which the Lord sware to your fathers,

19 To send out from before you all those who are against you.

to chase all thine enemies from before thy face, as the Lord said.

20 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?

And it shall come to pass when thy son shall ask thee at a future time, saying, What are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord our God has commanded us?

21 Then you will say to your son, We were servants under Pharaoh's yoke in Egypt; and the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand:

Then shalt thou say to thy son, We were slaves to Pharao in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us forth thence with a mighty hand, and with a high arm.

22 And the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt, and against Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes:

And the Lord wrought signs and great and grievous wonders in Egypt, on Pharao and on his house before us.

23 And he took us out from that place, guiding us here to give us this land, as he said in his oath to our fathers.

And he brought us out thence to give us this land, which he sware to give to our fathers.

24 And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day.

And the Lord charged us to observe all these ordinances; to fear the Lord our God, that it may be well with us for ever, that we may live, as even to-day.

25 And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.

And there shall be mercy to us, if we take heed to keep all these commands before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.