6Deuteronomy 6

1These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it:Select Deuteronomy 6:1

2That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy grandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.Select Deuteronomy 6:2

3Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk and honey.Select Deuteronomy 6:3

4Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.Select Deuteronomy 6:4

5Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.Select Deuteronomy 6:5

6And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:Select Deuteronomy 6:6

7And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.Select Deuteronomy 6:7

8And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.Select Deuteronomy 6:8

9And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house.Select Deuteronomy 6:9

10And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,Select Deuteronomy 6:10

11Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant,Select Deuteronomy 6:11

12And thou shalt have eaten and be full:Select Deuteronomy 6:12

13Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his name.Select Deuteronomy 6:13

14You shall not go after the strange gods of all the nations, that are round about you:Select Deuteronomy 6:14

15Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of thee: lest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and take thee away from the face of the earth.Select Deuteronomy 6:15

16Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.Select Deuteronomy 6:16

17Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and ceremonies which he hath commanded thee.Select Deuteronomy 6:17

18And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the goodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy fathers,Select Deuteronomy 6:18

19That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath spoken.Select Deuteronomy 6:19

20And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?Select Deuteronomy 6:20

21Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.Select Deuteronomy 6:21

22And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,Select Deuteronomy 6:22

23And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and give us the land, concerning which he swore to our fathers.Select Deuteronomy 6:23

24And the Lord commanded that we should do all these ordinances, and should fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the days of our life, as it is at this day.Select Deuteronomy 6:24

25And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.Select Deuteronomy 6:25