Deuteronomy 6

¹ Now this is the instruction, the statutes and the judgments that Yahweh your Elohim had enjoined on me to teach you, to keep in the land where you are crossing over to tenant it, ² that you may fear Yahweh your Elohim, so as to observe all His statutes and His instructions which I am enjoining on you today, you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. ³ Hear then, Israel, and observe to obey it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply exceedingly, just as Yahweh Elohim of your fathers promised to give to you a land gushing with milk and honey. ⁴ Hear, Israel! Yahweh is our Elohim; Yahweh the only One. ⁵ So you will love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your intensity. ⁶ These words which I am instructing you today will come to be in your heart. ⁷ Repeat them to your sons, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you arise. ⁸ Tie them for a sign on your hand, and they will come to be for the brow bands between your eyes; ⁹ Write them on the jambs of your house and on your gates. ¹⁰ When it comes to be that Yahweh your Elohim brings you into the land about which He had sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give to you great and good cities which you did not build, ¹¹ and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not hew, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, so that you will eat and be satisfied, ¹² then guard yourself, lest you should forget Yahweh your Elohim Who brought you forth from the country of Egypt, from the house of servants. ¹³ Yahweh your Elohim shall you fear, and Him only shall you serve, and to Him shall you cling, and by His name shall you swear. ¹⁴ You shall not go after other elohim of the elohim of the peoples who are around you ¹⁵ (for a jealous El is Yahweh your Elohim among you); otherwise the anger of Yahweh your Elohim shall grow hot against you, and He will exterminate you off the surface of the ground. ¹⁶ You shall not probe Yahweh your Elohim as you probed at Massah. ¹⁷ You shall observe, yea observe the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim and His testimonies and His statutes, which He had enjoined on you. ¹⁸ Do the upright and the good in the eyes of Yahweh your Elohim that it may be well with you and that you may enter and tenant the good land about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers, ¹⁹ to thrust out all your enemies from your presence, just as Yahweh had promised. ²⁰ When it comes to be that your son should ask you tomorrow, saying: What are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments that Yahweh our Elohim had enjoined on you? ²¹ then you will say to your son: We were servants to Pharaoh in Egypt, yet Yahweh brought us forth from Egypt with a steadfast hand. ²² And Yahweh gave signs and miracles, great and bad, against Egypt, against Pharaoh and against all his household before our eyes. ²³ Then He brought us forth from there, that He might bring us in and give to us the land about which Yahweh had sworn to our fathers. ²⁴ Then Yahweh instructed us to obey all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our Elohim for our good all the days so as to keep us alive, as it is this day. ²⁵ So it shall come to be righteousness for us when we observe to do all this instruction before Yahweh our Elohim, just as He had enjoined on us.