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Chapter 6
1 These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it:
2 That you may fear the Lord your God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which I command you, and your sons, and your grandsons, all the days of your life, that your days may be prolonged.
3 Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord has commanded you, that it may be well with you, and you may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of your fathers has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.
5 You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole strength.
6 And these words which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:
7 And you shall tell them to your children, and you shall meditate upon them sitting in your house, and walking on your journey, sleeping and rising.
8 And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be and shall move between your eyes.
9 And you shall write them in the entry, and on the doors of your house.
10 And when the Lord your God shall have brought you into the land, for which he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given you great and goodly cities, which you did not build,
11 Houses full of riches, which you did not set up, cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which you did not plant,
12 And you shall have eaten and be full:
13 Take heed diligently lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. you shall fear the Lord your God, and shall serve him only, and you shall swear by his name.
14 You shall not go after the strange gods of all the nations, that are round about you:
15 Because the Lord your God is a jealous God in the midst of you: lest at any time the wrath of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and take you away from the face of the earth.
16 You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted him in the place of temptation.
17 Keep the precepts of the Lord your God, and the testimonies and ceremonies which he has commanded you.
18 And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with you: and going in you may possess the goodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers,
19 That he would destroy all your enemies before you, as he has spoken.
20 And when your son shall ask you to morrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God has commanded us?
21 You shall say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.
22 And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,
23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and give us the land, concerning which he swore to our fathers.
24 And the 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.
25 And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.