Deuteronomy 6

1 “These are the commandments and rules and regulations that Yahweh our God commanded me to teach to you. He wants you to obey them in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.

(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.

2 He wants you to revere him, and he wants you and your descendants to always obey all these rules and regulations that I am giving to you, in order that you may live for a long time.

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.

3 So, you Israeli people, listen to them carefully and obey them. If you do that, things will go well with you, and you will become a nation with a very large population when you are living in that very fertile [IDM] land. That is what Yahweh, the God whom our ancestors [worshiped], promised [would happen].

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.

4 “You Israeli people, listen! Only Yahweh is our God.

Hear O Israel Yahweh God our Yahweh - [is] one.

5 You must love him with all your inner being and with all that you feel and with all that you do.

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

6 Never forget [IDM] these commands that I am giving to you today.

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

7 Teach them to your children again and again. Talk about them [all the time]: When you are in your houses and when you are walking outside; talk about them when you are lying down and when you are doing things.

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.

8 [Write them on tiny scrolls and] fasten them to your arms/wrists, and write them on bands that you fasten to your foreheads [to help you to remember them].

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

9 Write them on the doorposts and on the gates of your houses.

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

10 “Yahweh our God vowed to your ancestors Abraham and Isaac and Jacob that he will give you a land that already has in it large and prosperous cities that you did not build.

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.

11 He said that the houses in those cities will already be full of many good things that [others put there]; you did not put them there. There will be wells that others have dug. There will be vineyards and olive trees that others planted. So when Yahweh brings you into that land, and you have all that you want to eat,

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.

12 be sure that you do not forget Yahweh who rescued you from being slaves [in Egypt and gave all these things to you].

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

13 “You must revere Yahweh our God, and you must serve only him and say that he should [MTY] punish you if you do not do what you have promised.

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

14 You must not worship any other gods, the gods that the people-groups who will live near you worship.

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

15 Yahweh our God, who lives among you, (will not accept/will punish) people who worship anyone or anything else. So if you worship any other god, Yahweh will be very angry with you, and he will get rid of you completely.

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.

16 Do not do sinful things to find out if you can do them without Yahweh our God punishing you, like your ancestors did at Massah.

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

17 Be sure that you always obey all the laws, the commandments, the rules, and the regulations that he has given to you.

Certainly you will keep! [the] commandments of Yahweh God your and testimonies his and statutes his which he has commanded you.

18 Do what Yahweh says is right and good. If you do that, things will go well with you. You will be able to enter and occupy the good/fertile land that Yahweh vowed to give to our ancestors.

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.

19 He will do that by expelling your enemies from that land, just like he promised to do.

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

20 “In the future, when your children ask you, ‘Why did Yahweh our God command us to obey all these rules and regulations?’

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.

21 tell them, ‘Our ancestors were slaves of the king in Egypt, but Yahweh brought them out of Egypt by his great power [MTY].

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.

22 They saw him do many kinds of miracles [DOU] and do terrifying things to the people of Egypt and to the king and his officials.

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

23 He rescued our ancestors from Egypt and brought them here to give them this land, just like he vowed that he would do.

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

24 And he commanded us to obey all these laws and to revere him, for our own good and in order that he would protect our nation and enable us to prosper, as he is doing now.

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.

25 Yahweh our God will (approve of us/consider us to be righteous) if we carefully obey everything that he has commanded us to do.’”

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.