Deuteronomy 6

Deuteronomy 6:1

These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,

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go to possess it Heb. pass over.

Deuteronomy 6:2

so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.

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Deuteronomy 6:3

Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

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Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.

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Shema Yisrael , Yehowah , Elohainoo , Yehowah aichod. "Hear , Israel , Jehovah , our God , is one Jehovah." On this passage the Jews lay great stress; and it is one of the four passages which they write on their phylacteries. On the word Elohim , Simeon ben Joachi says "Come and see the mystery of the word Elohim. There are three degrees , and each degree is by itself alone , and yet they are all one , and joined together in one , and are not divided from each other."

Deuteronomy 6:5

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

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Deuteronomy 6:6

These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

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Deuteronomy 6:7

And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

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teach Heb. whet , or sharpen

Deuteronomy 6:8

Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

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Deuteronomy 6:9

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

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Deuteronomy 6:10

And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,

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Deuteronomy 6:11

with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,

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Deuteronomy 6:12

be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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Deuteronomy 6:13

Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.

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and serve him Our Saviour quotes these words thus . "And him only (בץפש לןםש) , shalt thou serve;" from which it would appear , that the word levaddo was anciently in the Hebrew Text , as it was in the Septuagint , Coptic , Vulgate (illi soli) , and Anglo-Saxon. Dr. Kennicott argues that without the word only , the text would not have conclusive for the purpose for which our Lord advanced it. It is proper , however , to observe , that the word levaddo is not found in any manuscript yet collated , though retained in the above versions.

Deuteronomy 6:14

Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

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Deuteronomy 6:15

For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

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Deuteronomy 6:16

Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.

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Deuteronomy 6:17

You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.

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Deuteronomy 6:18

Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,

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Deuteronomy 6:19

driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.

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Deuteronomy 6:20

In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

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in time to come Heb. to-morrow

Deuteronomy 6:21

then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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Deuteronomy 6:22

Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.

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sore Heb. evil

Deuteronomy 6:23

But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers.

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Deuteronomy 6:24

And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day.

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Deuteronomy 6:25

And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”

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