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"Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you may do them in the land where you are going over to take possession of it,

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

so that you, your son, and your grandson will fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

"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.

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

"Hear, Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord :

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

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

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

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine 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.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

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

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

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

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy 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,

And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and carved cisterns which you did not carve out, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are satisfied,

And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

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

Then beware lest thou forget the Lord , which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

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

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

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

Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

for the LORD your God who is in the midst of you is a jealous God; so follow Him, or else the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

(For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

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

Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

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

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

"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,

And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord : that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers.

by driving out all your enemies from you, as the LORD has spoken.

To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.

"When your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What do the provisions and the statutes and the judgments mean which the LORD our God commanded you?'

And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

then you shall say to your son, 'We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:

'Moreover, the LORD provided great and terrible signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household;

And the Lord shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:

He brought us out of there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.'

And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.

"So the LORD commanded us to follow all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God for our own good always and for our survival, as it is today.

And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.

"And it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to follow all this commandment before the LORD our God, just as He commanded us.

And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.