[1] Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which
Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land
where you go over to possess it; [2] that you might fear Yahweh your God,
to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you,
and your son, and your son`s son, all the days of your life; and that your
days may be prolonged. [3] Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it;
that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as
Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing
with milk and honey. [4] Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one:
[5] and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul, and with all your might. [6] These words, which I command you
this day, shall be on your heart; [7] and you shall teach them diligently
to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and
when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. [8]
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols
between your eyes. [9] You shall write them on the door-posts of your
house, and on your gates. [10] It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall
bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn`t
build, [11] and houses full of all good things, which you didn`t fill, and
cisterns dug out, which you didn`t dig, vineyards and olive-trees, which
you didn`t plant, and you shall eat and be full; [12] then beware lest you
forget Yahweh, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage. [13] You shall fear Yahweh your God; and him shall you
serve, and shall swear by his name. [14] You shall not go after other gods,
of the gods of the peoples who are round about you; [15] for Yahweh your
God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God
be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
[16] You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
[17] You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. [18] You shall
do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well
with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh
swore to your fathers, [19] to thrust out all your enemies from before you,
as Yahweh has spoken. [20] When your son asks you in time to come, saying,
What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which
Yahweh our God has commanded you? [21] then you shall tell your son, We
were Pharaoh`s bondservants in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt
with a mighty hand; [22] and Yahweh showed signs and wonders, great and
sore, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes; [23] and
he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the
land which he swore to our fathers. [24] Yahweh commanded us to do all
these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might
preserve us alive, as at this day. [25] It shall be righteousness to us, if
we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has
commanded us.
