Dvarim (Deuteronomy) - Chapter 6

6:1 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Mar-Yah your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; 6:2 that you might fear Mar-Yah your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. 6:3 Hear therefore, Yisrael, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Mar-Yah, God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 6:4 Hear, Yisrael: Mar-Yah is our God; Mar-Yah is one: 6:5 and you shall love Mar-Yah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6:6 These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; 6:7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall 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. 6:8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes. 6:9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates. 6:10 It shall be, when Mar-Yah your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Ya'aqub, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you did not build, 6:11 and houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, and cisterns dug out, which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant, and you shall eat and be full; 6:12 then beware lest you forget Mar-Yah, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 6:13 You shall fear Mar-Yah your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name. 6:14 You shall not go after other deities, of the deities of the peoples who are around you; 6:15 for Mar-Yah your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Mar-Yah your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. 6:16 You shall not tempt Mar-Yah your God, as you tempted him in Massah. 6:17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Mar-Yah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 6:18 You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Mar-Yah; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Mar-Yah swore to your fathers, 6:19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Mar-Yah has spoken.

6:20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, "What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Mar-Yah our God has commanded you mean?" 6:21 then you shall tell your son, "We were Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and Mar-Yah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; 6:22 and Mar-Yah showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes; 6:23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. 6:24 Mar-Yah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Mar-Yah our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. 6:25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Mar-Yah our God, as he has commanded us."