NOW
these are the 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:
2 That
thou 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; and that thy days may be prolonged.
3 Hear
therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with
thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath
promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O
Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5 And thou
shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy might.
6 And
these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou
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.
8 And thou
shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets
between thine eyes.
9 And thou
shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
10 And 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, which thou buildedst not,
11 And
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; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
12 Then
beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land
of Egypt, from the house of
bondage.
13 Thou
shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
14 Ye
shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round
about you;
15 (For
the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD
thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the
earth.
16 Ye
shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
17 Ye
shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
18 And
thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD:
that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good
land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
19 To
cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
20 And
when 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?
21 Then
thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh?s bondmen
in Egypt; and
the LORD brought us out of Egypt
with a mighty hand:
22 And
the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore,
upon Egypt,
upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
23 And he
brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land
which he sware unto our fathers.
24 And
the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for
our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
25 And it
shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before
the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.