Deuteronomy 6–8

Now these are ^athe commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: ²that ^bthou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; ^cand that thy days may be prolonged. ³Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; ^cthat it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, ^das the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in ^ethe land that floweth with milk and honey. ^4fHear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: ⁵and ^gthou shalt love the Lord thy God ^hwith all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy ^hmight. ⁶And ⁱthese words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: ⁷and ^kthou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. ^8lAnd thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. ^9mAnd thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. ¹⁰And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, ⁿwhich thou buildedst not, ¹¹And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; ^owhen thou shalt have eaten and be full; ¹²then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. ¹³Thou shalt ^pfear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and ^qshalt swear by his name. ¹⁴Ye shall not ^rgo after other gods, ^sof the gods of the people which are round about you; ¹⁵(for ^tthe Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) ^ulest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. ^16xYe shall not tempt the Lord your God, ^yas ye tempted him in Massah. ¹⁷You shall ^zdiligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. ¹⁸And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: ^athat it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, ^19bto cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken. ²⁰And ^cwhen thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you? ²¹then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt ^dwith a mighty hand: ^22eAnd the Lord shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: ²³And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. ²⁴And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, ^fto fear the Lord our God, ^gfor our good always, that ^hhe might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. ²⁵And ⁱit shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

VII.When the ^aLord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, ^bthe Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations ^cgreater and mightier than thou; ²and when the Lord thy God shall ^ddeliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and ^eutterly destroy them; ^fthou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: ^3gneither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. ⁴For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: ^hso will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. ⁵But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall ⁱdestroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down ⁱtheir groves, and burn their graven images with fire. ^6kFor thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a ^lspecial people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. ⁷The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were moe in number than any people; for ye were ^mthe fewest of all people: ⁸but ⁿbecause the Lord loved you, and because he would keep ^othe oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out ^pwith a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, ^qthe faithful God, ^rwhich keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; ¹⁰And ^srepayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: ^the will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. ¹¹Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. ^12uWherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee ^xthe covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: ¹³and he will ^ylove thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: ^zhe will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. ¹⁴Thou shalt be blessed above all people: ^athere shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. ¹⁵And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil ^bdiseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. ¹⁶And ^cthou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; ^dthine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be ^ea snare unto thee. ¹⁷If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are moe than I; how can I ^fdispossess them? ^18gthou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well ^hremember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; ¹⁹ⁱthe great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. ²⁰Moreover the Lord thy God will send ^kthe hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. ^21gThou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is ^lamong you, ^ma mighty God and terrible. ²²ⁿAnd the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. ²³But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. ²⁴And ^ohe shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name ^pfrom under heaven: ^qthere shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. ²⁵The graven images of their gods ^rshall ye burn with fire: thou ^sshalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be ^tsnared therein: for it is ^uan abomination to the Lord thy God. ²⁶Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is ^xa cursed thing.

VIII.All the commandments which I command thee this day ^ashall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers. ²And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee ^bthese forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and ^cto prove thee, ^dto know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. ³And he humbled thee, and ^esuffered thee to hunger, and ^ffed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that ^gman doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. ^4hThy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. ⁵Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man ⁱchasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. ⁶Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, ^kto walk in his ways, and to fear him. ⁷For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, ^la land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of the valleys and hills; ⁸a land of wheat, and barley, ^mand vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; ⁹a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land ⁿwhose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. ¹⁰When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. ¹¹Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: ^12olest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; ¹³and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; ^14pthen thine heart be lifted up, and thou ^qforget the Lord thy God,…