1Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yehovah your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it; 2that you might fear Yehovah 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. 3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yehovah, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 4Hear, O Israel: Yehovah our God, Yehovah is one: 5and you shall love Yehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6And these words, which I command you this day, shall be upon your heart; 7and 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. 8And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 9And you shall write them upon the door-posts of your house, and upon your gates. 10And it shall be, when Yehovah your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you did not build, 11and houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which you did not hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which you did not plant, and you shall eat and be full; 12then beware lest you forget Yehovah, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 13You shall fear Yehovah your God; and him you shall serve, and shall swear by his name. 14You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are around you; 15for Yehovah your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yehovah your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. 16You shall not tempt Yehovah your God, as you tempted him in Massah. 17You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 18And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yehovah; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yehovah swore to your fathers, 19to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yehovah has spoken. 20When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is the meaning of the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yehovah our God has commanded you? 21then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt: and Yehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; 22and Yehovah showed signs and wonders, great and severe, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before our eyes; 23and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. 24And Yehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yehovah our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. 25And it shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yehovah our God, as he has commanded us.