Deuteronomy 6
1NOW these are the commandments, and the rules of rectitude, and the judgments, which the Lord our God commanded you to be taught, that you may act conformably thereto in the land to which you are going, there to take possession of it;
2that you may fear the Lord your God. You shall keep all His statutes, and His commandments, which I this day command you, both thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, all the days of thy life, that you may live many days.
3Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to perform; that it may be well with thee, and that you may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord, the God of thy fathers, hath promised to give thee a land flowing with milk and honey. These indeed are the rules of rectitude, and the judgments, which the Lord gave in charge to the children of Israel, in the wilderness, on their coming out of the land of Egypt.
4Hear O Israel! The Lord is our God. The Lord is One.
5And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole understanding, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole might.
6And these injunctions, which I this day give thee in charge, shall be in thy heart, and in thy soul;
7and thou shalt impress them on thy children, and speak of them, when thou sittest at home, and when thou art walking abroad, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up;
8and thou shalt bind them for a sign on thy right hand, and it shall be immoveably before thine eyes.
9You shall also write them on the posts of your houses and gates.
10And when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into the land, which, with an oath, He promised to thy fathers, to Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob, to give thee cities, great and beautiful, which thou hast not builded;
11houses full of all good things, which thou hast not filled; cisterns of hewn stone, which thou hast not hewed; vineyards, and olive yards which thou hast not planted; and when thou hast eaten, and art filled,
12take heed to thyself, that thou forget not the Lord thy God, Who brought thee out of the land of Egypt—out of the house of bondage.
13Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve Him alone, and cleave to Him, and swear by His name.
14Go not after other gods—after any of the gods of the nations around you
15(for the zealous God—the Lord thy God is among you); lest the Lord thy God, being provoked to wrath against thee, destroy thee from the face of the land.
16Thou shalt not try the Lord thy God, as you tried Him at [the place called] Temptation.
17Thou shalt diligently keep the commandments of the Lord thy God—all the testimonies, and the rules of rectitude, which He shall give thee in charge;
18and thou shalt do what is well pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord thy God, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst go in, and take possession of that good land, out of which the Lord hath, with an oath, promised your fathers
19to drive all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
20And when thy son shall, in time to come, ask thee, saying, What is the meaning of these testimonies, and these rules of rectitude, and these judgments, which the Lord our God hath enjoined on us?
21Then thou shalt say to thy son, We were servants to Pharao, in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us out thence, with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm.
22And when the Lord had shewn signs, and wonders, great and grievous, in Egypt, on Pharao, and on his household, in our sight,
23He brought us out thence, to give us this land, which, with an oath, He promised to give our fathers;
24and the Lord commanded us to practise all these rules—to fear the Lord our God, that it may be well with us always, that we may live, as we now do.
25For we shall find mercy, if we be careful to perform all these commandments in the sight of the Lord our God, as He hath commanded us.