Deuteronomy Chapter 6

Deuteronomy Chapter 6
1 These now are the commandments,
ordinances, and laws, which the Lord
your God commanded me to teach you,
that ye might do them in the land whither
ye go to possess it:
2 That thou mightest fear the Lord thy
God, and keep all his ordinances, and
his commandments which I command
thee, thou, and thy son, and thy sons’
son all the days of thy life, even that thy
days may be prolonged. 3 Hear
therefore, O Israel, and take heed to do
it, that it may go well with thee, and that
ye may increase mightily in the land that
floweth with milk and honey, as the Lord
God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
4 Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is
Lord only,
5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thine heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy might.
6 And these words which I command
thee this day, shall be in thine heart. 7
And thou shalt rehearse them continually
unto thy children, and shalt talk of them
when thou tarriest in thine house, and as
thou walkest by the way, and when thou
liest down, and when thou risest up:
8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign
upon thine hand, and they shall be as
frontlets between thine eyes.
9 Also thou shalt write them upon the
posts of thine house, and upon thy gates.
10 And when the Lord thy God hath
brought thee into the land, which he
swear unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, to give to thee, with great and
goodly cities which thou buildest not,
11 And houses full of all manner of
goods which thou fillest not, and wells
digged which thou diggest not, vineyards
and olive trees which thou plantest not,
and when thou hast eaten and art full,
12 Beware lest thou forget the Lord,
which brought thee out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and
serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
14 Ye shall not walk after other gods,
after any of the gods of the people
which are round about you,
15 (For the Lord thy God is a jealous
God among you:) lest the wrath of the
Lord thy God be kindled against thee,
and destroy thee from the face of the
earth.
16 Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God,
as ye did tempt him in Massah: 17 But
ye shall keep diligently the
commandments of the Lord your God,
and his testimonies, and his ordinances
which he hath commanded thee, 18 And
thou shalt do that which is right and good
in the sight of the Lord: that thou mayest
prosper, and that thou mayest go in, and
possess that good land which the Lord
swear unto thy fathers,
19 To cast out all thine enemies before
thee, as the Lord hath said. 20 When thy
son shall ask thee in time to come,
saying, What mean these testimonies,
and ordinances, and laws, which the
Lord our God hath commanded you?
21 Then shalt thou say unto thy son, We
were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt: but
the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a
mighty hand.
22 And the Lord showed signs and
wonders great and evil upon Egypt, upon
Pharaoh, and upon all his household,
before our eyes,
23 And brought us out from thence, to
bring us in, and to give us the land which
he swear unto our fathers.
24 Therefore the Lord hath commanded
us, to do all these ordinances, and to
fear the Lord our God, that it may go
ever well with us, and that he may
preserve us alive as at this present.
25 Moreover, this shall be our
righteousness before the Lord our God,
if we take heed to keep all these
commandments, as he hath commanded
us.