Deuteronomy 6

1This is the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you to do in the land where you are crossing over there to possess it.

2so that you fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command you—you, your son, and your son's son—all the days of your life, and so that your days may be long.

3Listen carefully, Israel, and take care to carry them out, so that you prosper and multiply greatly, as Yahweh the God of your fathers has spoken to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

4Israel, Yahweh our God—Yahweh is one.

5And you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

6These words that I am commanding you today shall be on your heart.

7Impress them on your children, and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you rise.

8You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be frontlets between your eyes.

9Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

10When Yahweh your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give you great and fine cities that you did not build,

11Houses full of every good thing that you did not fill, hewn cisterns that you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant, and you will eat and be satisfied.

12Be careful not to forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

13Fear Yahweh your God; serve him, and swear by his name.

14Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples who surround you.

15For Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God burn against you and he destroy you from the face of the earth.

16Do not test Yahweh your God as you tested him at Massah.

17You shall carefully keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, his testimonies, and his statutes, which he commanded you.

18You shall do what is right and good in Yahweh's sight, so that things go well for you and you enter to possess the good land that Yahweh swore to your fathers.

19to expel all your enemies from your presence, as Yahweh has spoken.

20When your son asks you in the future, saying, "What are the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments that Yahweh our God commanded you?"

21You will answer your son, "We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand."

22Yahweh gave great and terrible signs and wonders in Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes.

23And he brought us out from there to bring us in to give us the land he swore to our fathers.

24Yahweh commanded us to carry out all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good every day, that he might keep us alive, as he does today.

25Righteousness will be ours if we are careful to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he commanded us.