Deuteronomy 6:1–10

Obey God and Prosper

¹“Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it,

²so that you and your son and your grandson might ^afear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, ^ball the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

³“O Israel, you should listen and ¹be careful to do it, that ^ait may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in ^ba land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴“^aHear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the ^bLord is one!

⁵“^aYou shall love the Lord your God ^bwith all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

⁶“^aThese words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.

⁷“^aYou shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall 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“^aYou shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as ¹frontals ²on your forehead.

⁹“^aYou shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

¹⁰“Then it shall come about when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, ^agreat and splendid cities which you did not build,