Deuteronomy 6

¹These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and you should do them in the Land, whereunto you pass over to possess it:

²that thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep his commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and nephews, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.

³Hear Israel, and observe that thou do the things which our Lord hath commanded thee, and it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk & honey.

⁴Hear Israel, The Lord our God, is one Lord.

⁵Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.^†

⁶And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:

⁷and thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping, and rising.

⁸And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thine eyes,

⁹and thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house.

¹⁰And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the Land, for the which he sware to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,

¹¹houses full of all riches, which thou didst not erect, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant,

¹²and thou shalt have eaten and be full:

¹³take heed diligently lest thou forget our Lord, that brought thee out of the Land of Ægypt, out of the house of servitude. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve, and by his name shalt thou swear.

¹⁴You shall not go after the strange gods of all Nations, that are round about you:

¹⁵because the Lord thy God is a Jealous God in the midst of thee: lest sometime the fury of the Lord thy God be wrath against thee, & take thee away from the face of the earth.

¹⁶Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou didst tempt him in the place of tentation.

¹⁷Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies & ceremonies, which he hath commanded thee:

¹⁸And do that which is pleasant and good in the sight of our Lord, that it may be well with thee: and entering in thou mayest possess the goodly Land, whereof our Lord sware to thy fathers,

¹⁹that he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath spoken.

²⁰And when thy son shall ask thee tomorrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?

²¹thou shalt say to him: We were the bondmen of Pharao in Ægypt, and our Lord brought us out of Ægypt in a strong hand:

²²and he did signs & wonders great and very sore in Ægypt against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,

²³and he brought us out from thence, that being brought in he might give us the Land, whereupon he sware to our fathers.

²⁴And our Lord commanded that we should do all these ordinances, and should fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the days of our life, as it is at this day.

²⁵And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he commanded us.