Deuteronomy 6

1 (And this *LP) [is] the commandment the statutes and the judgments which he has commanded Yahweh God your to teach you to observe in the land where you [are] about to pass over there towards to take possession of 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 So that you may fear Yahweh God your to keep all statutes his and commandments his which I [am] commanding you you and child your and [the] child of child your all [the] days of life your and so that they may grow long! days your.

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 And you will hear O Israel and you will take care to observe [them] that it will go well for you and that you will increase! exceedingly just as he spoke Yahweh [the] God of ancestors your to you a land flowing of milk and honey.

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 Yahweh God our Yahweh - [is] one.

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

5 And you will love Yahweh God your with all heart your and with all being your and with all strength your.

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

6 And they will be the words these which I [am] commanding you this day on heart your.

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

7 And you will repeat them to children your and you will speak in them when sitting you in house your and when walking you on the road and when lying down you and when rising up you.

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 will tie them for a sign on hand your and they will be for marks between eyes your.

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

9 And you will write them on [the] doorposts of house your and on gates your.

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

10 And it will be that he will bring you - Yahweh God your into the land which he swore to ancestors your to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give to you cities large and good which not you built.

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 And houses full every good thing which not you filled and wells dug out which not you dug vineyards and olive trees which not you planted and you will eat and you will be satisfied.

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 Take heed to yourself lest you should forget Yahweh who he brought out you from [the] land of Egypt from a house of slaves.

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

13 Yahweh God your you will fear and him you will serve and in name his you will swear oaths.

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

14 Not you will walk! after gods other any of [the] gods of the peoples which [are] around you.

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

15 For [is] a God jealous Yahweh God your in midst your lest it should burn [the] anger of Yahweh God your on you and he will destroy you from on [the] surface of the ground.

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 Not you will put to [the] test Yahweh God your just as you put [him] to [the] test at Massah.

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

17 Certainly you will keep! [the] commandments of Yahweh God your and testimonies his and statutes his which he has 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 will do the right and the good in [the] eyes of Yahweh so that it may go well for you and you will go and you will take possession of the land good which he swore Yahweh to ancestors your.

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 drive out all enemies your from before you just as he has spoken Yahweh.

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

20 If he will ask you child your tomorrow saying what? [are] the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which he commanded Yahweh God our you.

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 And you will say to child your slaves we were of Pharaoh in Egypt and he brought out us Yahweh from Egypt by a hand strong.

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 he gave Yahweh signs and wonders great and bad - on Egypt on Pharaoh and on all household his to eyes our.

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 us he brought out from there so as to bring us to give to us the land which he swore to ancestors our.

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

24 And he commanded us Yahweh to observe all the statutes these to fear Yahweh God our for good of us all the days to preserve alive us as the day this.

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 righteousness it will belong to us that we will take care to observe all the commandment this before Yahweh God our just as he 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.”