Deuteronomy 6

6Now 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. ¹⁷Ye 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.