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1 Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances, which Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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, O Israel and observe to do it, that it may be well with you and that you* may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah. 5 And you will love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
6 And these words, which I command you this day, will be upon your heart. 7 And you will teach them diligently to your sons and will 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 And you will bind them for a sign upon your hand and they will be for bands between your eyes. 9 And you will write them upon the door-posts of your house and upon your gates.
10 And it will be, when Jehovah your God will bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give you, great and pleasant cities, which you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things, which you did not fill and cisterns hewn out, which you did not hew, vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant and you will eat and be full, 12 then beware lest you forget Jehovah, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
13 You will fear Jehovah your God and him you will serve and will swear by his name. 14 You* will not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are all around you*, 15 for Jehovah your God in the midst of you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Jehovah your God be kindled against you and he destroy you from the face of the earth.
16 You* will not challenge Jehovah your* God, as you* challenged him in Massah.
17 You* will diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your* God and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 18 And you will do what is right and good in the sight of Jehovah, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, 19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Jehovah has spoken.
20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God has commanded you*? 21 Then you will say to your son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22 And Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon 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 And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God for our good always, that he might preserve us alive as at this day. 25 And it will be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God as he has commanded us.
3 Hear therefore, O Israel and observe to do it, that it may be well with you and that you* may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah. 5 And you will love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
6 And these words, which I command you this day, will be upon your heart. 7 And you will teach them diligently to your sons and will 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 And you will bind them for a sign upon your hand and they will be for bands between your eyes. 9 And you will write them upon the door-posts of your house and upon your gates.
10 And it will be, when Jehovah your God will bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give you, great and pleasant cities, which you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things, which you did not fill and cisterns hewn out, which you did not hew, vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant and you will eat and be full, 12 then beware lest you forget Jehovah, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
13 You will fear Jehovah your God and him you will serve and will swear by his name. 14 You* will not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are all around you*, 15 for Jehovah your God in the midst of you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Jehovah your God be kindled against you and he destroy you from the face of the earth.
16 You* will not challenge Jehovah your* God, as you* challenged him in Massah.
17 You* will diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your* God and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 18 And you will do what is right and good in the sight of Jehovah, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, 19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Jehovah has spoken.
20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God has commanded you*? 21 Then you will say to your son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22 And Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon 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 And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God for our good always, that he might preserve us alive as at this day. 25 And it will be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God as he has commanded us.