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'You shall not murder.

'You shall not commit adultery.

'You shall not steal.

'You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

'You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male slave or his female slave, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.'

'But as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, so that they may follow them in the land which I am giving them to possess.'

"So you shall be careful to do just as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.

"You shall walk entirely in the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and that it may be well for you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.

"Now Israel, you shall listen and be careful to do them, so that it may go well for you and that you may increase greatly, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

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

"These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.

"And you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.

"You shall also tie them as a sign to your hand, and they shall be as frontlets on your forehead.

"You shall also write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

"Then it shall come about when the LORD your God brings you into the land that He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build,

"You shall fear only the LORD your God; and you shall worship Him and swear by His name.

"You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,

"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.

"You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His provisions and His statutes which He has commanded you.

"You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may go well for you and that you may go in and take possession of the good land which the LORD swore to give your fathers,