Deuteronomy 6

This is the commandment, the statutes and judgments, that the LORD your God commanded to be taught to you, for you to do in the land you are crossing over to possess, so that you may fear the LORD your God, keeping all his statutes and commandments that I command you, you and your son and your son’s son, all the days of your life, and so that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, so that it may go well with you and you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the way, when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as bands between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. When the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you, with great and good cities that you did not build, houses full of every good thing that you did not fill, hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant, and you eat and are satisfied, take care, lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall fear the LORD your God, serve him, and swear by his name. You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples around you, for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God, lest the anger of the LORD your God burn against you and he destroy you from the face of the earth. You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his testimonies and his statutes that he has commanded you. You shall do what is right and good in the eyes of the LORD, so that it may go well with you and you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to drive out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has said. When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What do the testimonies, statutes, and judgments that the LORD our God commanded you mean?’ you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. The LORD did great and terrible signs and wonders against Egypt, against Pharaoh, and against all his household before our eyes. He brought us out from there so that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to our fathers. The LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, to preserve us alive, as we are this day. It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.’

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