CHAPTER 6
These are
the commandments
and statutes
and ordinances
that
the LORD
your God
has instructed
me to teach you
to follow
in the land
you
are about to enter
and possess,
so that you
and your children
and grandchildren
may fear
the LORD
your God
all
the days
of your lives
by keeping
all
His statutes
and commandments
that
I
give
you,
and so that
your days
may be prolonged.
Hear,
O Israel,
and be careful
to observe them,
so that
you may prosper
and multiply
greatly
in a land
flowing
with milk
and honey,
just as
the LORD,
the God
of your fathers,
has promised
you.
And you shall love
the LORD
your God
with all
your heart
and with all
your soul
and with all
your strength.
And you shall teach them diligently
to your children
and speak of them
when you sit
in your house
and when you walk
along the road,
when you lie down
and when you get up.
And when
the LORD
your God
brings
you into
the land
He swore
to your fathers,
to Abraham,
Isaac,
and Jacob,
that He would give
you—
a land with great
and splendid
cities
that
you did not
build,
with houses
full of
every
good
thing with which
you did not
fill them,
with wells
that
you did not
dig,
and with vineyards
and olive groves
that
you did not
plant—
and when you eat
and are satisfied,
be careful
not
to forget
the LORD
who
brought you out
of the land
of Egypt,
out of the house
of slavery.
For
the LORD
your God,
who is among you,
is a jealous
God.
Otherwise,
the anger
of the LORD
your God
will be kindled against you,
and He will wipe you
off
the face
of the earth.
You are to diligently
keep
the commandments
of the LORD
your God
and the testimonies
and statutes
He has commanded you.
Do
what is right
and good
in the sight
of the LORD,
so that
it may be well
with you
and that you may enter
and possess
the good
land
which the LORD
your God swore
to give your fathers,
In the future,
when
your son
asks you,
“What
is the meaning of the decrees
and statutes
and ordinances
the LORD
our God
has commanded you?”
then you are to tell
him,
“We were
slaves
of Pharaoh
in Egypt,
but the LORD
brought us out
of Egypt
with a mighty
hand.
Before our eyes
the LORD
inflicted
great
and devastating
signs
and wonders
on Egypt,
on Pharaoh,
and on all
his household,
but He brought us
from there
to
lead us in
and give
us the land
that
He had sworn
to our fathers.
And the LORD
commanded us
to observe
all
these
statutes
and to fear
the LORD
our God,
that we might always prosper
and be preserved,
as we are this day.
And if we are careful
to observe
every
one of these
commandments
before
the LORD
our God
just as
He has commanded us,
then that
will be
our
righteousness.”