Deuteronomy 6

Revised Geneva Translation

6 “These, now, are the Commandments, Ordinances, and Laws, which the LORD your God Commanded to teach, so that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess,

² “so that you might fear the LORD your God and keep all His Ordinances and his Commandments which I command you—you and your son and your son’s son, all the days of your life—so that your days may be prolonged.

³ “Hear, therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do it, so that it may go well with you, and that you may increase mightily in the land that flows with milk and honey, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you.

⁴ “Hear, O Israel, The LORD our God is LORD only,

⁵ “and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

⁶ “And these words which I command you this day shall be in your heart.

⁷ “And you shall repeat them continually to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and as you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

⁸ “And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand. And they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

⁹ “Also, you shall write them upon the posts of your house and upon your gates.

¹⁰ “And when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to you, with great and beautiful cities which you did not build,

¹¹ “and houses full of all manner of goods which you did not fill, wells dug which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant. And you have eaten and are full.

¹² “Beware, lest you forget the LORD, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

¹³ “You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve Him, and shall swear by His Name.

¹⁴ “You shall not walk after other gods, the gods of the people who are all around you

¹⁵ “(for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest the wrath of the LORD your God be kindled against you and destroy you from the face of the Earth.

¹⁶ “You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted Him in Massah.

¹⁷ “You shall diligently keep the Commandments of the LORD your God, and His Testimonies and His Ordinances which He has commanded you.

¹⁸ “And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that you may prosper, and that you may go in and possess that good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,

¹⁹ “to cast out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.

²⁰ “When your son shall ask you in the future, saying, ‘What do these Testimonies and Ordinances and Laws which the LORD our God has Commanded you mean?’

²¹ “Then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. But the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty Hand.

²² ‘And the LORD showed great and unpleasant signs and wonders before our eyes, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household,

²³ ‘and brought us out from there, to bring us in and to give us the land which He swore to our fathers.

²⁴ ‘Therefore, the LORD has Commanded us to do all these Ordinances, to fear the LORD our God, so that it may go well with us, and that He may preserve us alive at the present time.

²⁵ ‘Moreover, this shall be our righteousness before the LORD our God, if we take heed to keep all these Commandments, as He has Commanded us.’