6:1 These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
6:2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.
6:3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
6:5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
6:6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.
6:7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
6:8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
6:9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
6:10 When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you–a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build,
6:11 houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant–then when you eat and are satisfied,
6:12 be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
6:13 Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name.
6:14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you;
6:15 for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land.
6:16 Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah.
6:17 Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you.
6:18 Do what is right and good in the LORD’S sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers,
6:19 thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the LORD said.
6:20 In the future, when your son asks you, “What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the LORD our God has commanded you?”
6:21 tell him: “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
6:22 Before our eyes the LORD sent miraculous signs and wonders–great and terrible–upon Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household.
6:23 But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers.
6:24 The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today.
6:25 And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.”
6:1 Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God has commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land into which you are crossing over to possess;
6:2 That you may fear Jehovah your God and keep all His statutes and His commandments, which I am commanding you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life; and that your days may be extended.
6:3 Therefore hear, O Israel, and be certain to do it, that it may go well with you and that you may be greatly increased, in a land flowing with milk and honey, even as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, promised you.
6:4 Hear, O Israel, Jehovah is our God; Jehovah is one.
6:5 And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
6:6 And these words, which I command you today, shall be upon your heart;
6:7 And you shall repeat them to your children, and speak about them when you sit in your house and when you journey on the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up;
6:8 And you shall bind them on your hand as a sign, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes;
6:9 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
6:10 And when Jehovah 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 that you did not build,
6:11 And houses full of every good thing that you did not fill, and hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant, and you have eaten and are satisfied;
6:12 Be careful that you do not forget Jehovah who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house.
6:13 It is Jehovah your God whom you shall fear, and Him whom you shall serve; and it is by His name only that you shall swear.
6:14 You shall not go after other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you ?
6:15 For Jehovah your God is a jealous God in the midst of you. Otherwise the anger of Jehovah your God will be kindled against you, and He will destroy you from off the face of the earth.
6:16 You shall not test Jehovah your God, as you tested Him at Massah.
6:17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and His testimonies and His statutes, which He has commanded you.
6:18 And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Jehovah so that it may go well with you and you may enter and possess the good land, concerning which Jehovah swore to your fathers
6:19 To drive out all your enemies from before you, as Jehovah has spoken.
6:20 When your son asks you in the future, saying, What is the significance of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances that Jehovah our God commanded you?
6:21 Then you will say to your son, We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
6:22 And Jehovah put forth before our eyes great and grievous signs and wonders in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his house.
6:23 Then He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, that He might give us the land which He swore to our fathers.
6:24 And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes so that we would fear Jehovah our God for our good always and He would preserve us alive, as we are this day.
6:25 And it will be righteousness to us if we are certain to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as He commanded us.