Deuteronomy 6

1 And these [are] the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgements, as many as the Lord our God gave commandment to teach you to do so in the land on which you enter to inherit it.

These are the commandments and rules and regulations that the Lord your God has ordered me to teach you to follow in the country that you're going to enter and occupy.

2 That you may fear the Lord your God, keep you all his ordinances, and his commandments, which I command you today, you, and your sons, and your sons' sons, all the days of your life, that you may live many days.

This is so you and your children and grandchildren will show respect to the Lord your God throughout your lives by keeping all his rules and regulations that I give you, and so that you may have a long life.

3 Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them, that it may be well with you, and that you may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord God of your fathers said that he would give you a land flowing with milk and honey: and these [are] the ordinances, and the judgements, which the Lord commanded the children of Israel in the wilderness, when they had gone forth from the land of Egypt.

Listen, people of Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may do well and have many descendants in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your forefathers, promised you.

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

Listen, people of Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is the only one.

5 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your mind, and with all your soul, and all your strength.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your mind and with all your being and with all your strength.

6 And these words, all that I command you this day, shall be in your heart and in your soul.

The commands I'm giving you today must stay in your minds.

7 And you shall teach them to your children, and you shall speak of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up.

You are to explain them carefully to your children and talk about them when you're at home and when you're traveling, when you lie down and when you get up.

8 And you shall fasten them for a sign upon your hand, and it shall be immoveable before your eyes.

Tie them on your hands as reminders and put them on your foreheads as well.

9 And you shall write them on the lintels of your houses and of your gates.

Write them on the doorposts of your homes and on your gates.

10 And it shall come to pass when the Lord your God shall have brought you into the land which he sware to your fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities which you did not build,

The Lord your God is going to take you into the country he promised to give you and your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It's a country with large, prosperous towns that you didn't build,

11 houses full of all good things which you did not fill, wells dug in the rock which you did not dig, vineyards and olive yards which you did not plant, then having eaten and been filled,

with houses full of plenty of good things that you didn't provide, that have wells you didn't dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant. When you eat and are full

12 beware lest you forget the Lord your God that brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

make sure you don't forget the Lord who led you out of Egypt, out of the prison-house of slavery.

13 You shall fear the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve; and you shall cleave to him, and by his name you shall swear.

Respect the Lord your God only worship him, and only make promises in his name.

14 Go you not after other gods of the gods of the nations round about you;

Don't worship any other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,

15 for the Lord your God in the midst of you [is] a jealous God, lest the Lord your God be very angry with you, and destroy you from off the face of the earth.

because the Lord your God, who lives among you, is an exclusive God, and Lord your God will become angry with you, and he will wipe you out.

16 You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted him in the temptation.

Don't test the Lord your God like you did at Massah.

17 You shall by all means keep the commands of the Lord your God, the testimonies, and the ordinances, which he commanded you.

You must be careful to keep the commandments of the Lord your God and the laws and rules he's given you.

18 And you shall do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord your God, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and inherit the good land, which the Lord sware to your fathers,

Do what's good and right in the Lord's sight so that it will go well for you and that you may enter and take over the good land that the Lord your God promised to give your forefathers,

19 to chase all your enemies from before your face, as the Lord said.

He will drive out all your enemies ahead of you, just as he said.

20 And it shall come to pass when your son shall ask you at a future time, saying, What are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgements, which the Lord our God has commanded us?

In the future, when your children come and ask you, “What's the point of decrees and rules and regulations that the Lord our God ordered you to follow?”

21 Then shall you say to your son, We were slaves to Pharao in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us forth thence with a mighty hand, and with a high arm.

then you are to tell them, “Once we were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord by his power led us out of Egypt.

22 And the Lord wrought signs and great and grievous wonders in Egypt, on Pharao and on his house before us.

Before our very eyes the Lord brought down incredible and terrifying signs and miracles on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his people.

23 And he brought us out thence to give us this land, which he sware to give to our fathers.

But he led us out of there to take us here, giving us this country that he had promised to our forefathers.

24 And the Lord charged us to observe all these ordinances; to fear the Lord our God, that it may be well with us for ever, that we may live, as even today.

The Lord ordered us to keep all these laws and to respect the Lord our God, so that we would always be safe and well, as we are today

25 And there shall be mercy to us, if we take heed to keep all these commands before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.

And if we carefully observe each of these commandments as we live in the presence of the Lord, as he instructed us, then we will be right with him.”