 1 These are the commandments, statutes, and judgments that the Lord our God commanded to teach you so that you might do them in the land where you go, to possess it, 2 that you might fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments that I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life, and so that your days may be prolonged. 3 Then hear, O Israel, and be careful to do it, so that it may be well with you, and that you may greatly multiply, as the Lord God of our fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel. The Lord our God is one Lord. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 These words that I command you this day shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them upon the posts of your house and on your gates. 10 This shall be done when the Lord your God has brought you into the land that He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and good cities that you did not build. 11 Also houses full of every good thing that you did not fill and wells that are dug but that you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant. You will eat and be full. 12 Be on guard lest you forget the Lord who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves. 13 You shall fear the Lord your God and serve Him and swear by His name. 14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people all around you. 15 For the Lord your God is a jealous God among you. Otherwise the anger of the Lord your God will be kindled against you and destroy you from off the face of the earth. 16 You shall not tempt the Lord your God as you tempted in Massah. 17 You shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God and His testimonies and His statutes that He has commanded you. 18 You shall do right and good in the sight of the Lord so that it may be well with you and so that you may go in and possess the good land that the Lord swore to your fathers. 19 He will cast out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken. 20 When your son asks you in time to come saying, What are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments that the Lord our God has commanded you? 21 Then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22 The Lord gave signs and wonders, great and evil signs, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his household, before our eyes. 23 He brought us out from there so that He might bring us in to give us the land that He swore to our fathers. 24 The Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, so that He might preserve us alive, as it is today. 25 If we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God as He has commanded us, it will be our righteousness.
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