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📚Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, so that you might do them in the land that you will cross over to possess, 2 📚so that you might fear the LORD✭ your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may long continue✭. 3 📚Therefore hear, O Israel, and observe to do it, so that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, just as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey.4 📚✭Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD✭
The greatest commandment of all
5 📚✭and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Further exhortations to keep God’s commands
6 📚✭And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart, 7 📚and you shall teach them diligently to your children✭, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down, and when you get up. 8 📚And you shall bind them✭ as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as something tied on your foreheads. 9 📚And you shall write them✭ on the posts of your house, and on your gates.
10 📚✭And when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and fine cities which you did not build, 11 📚and houses full of everything good which you did not fill, and dug wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, when you have eaten and are satisfied, 12 then you must watch out that you do not forget the LORD who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 📚✭You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve him, and take your oaths in his name. 14 📚✭You shall not go after other gods, gods of the people who are around you, 15 📚so that the anger of the LORD your God does not burn against you, and destroy you from off the face of the earth; for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you. 16 📚✭You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah. 17 📚You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 18 📚And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers, 19 📚by driving out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has said.
20 📚✭And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What is the meaning of the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you?” 21 📚Then you shall say to your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, and the LORD brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand, 22 📚and before our eyes the LORD showed great and terrible signs and wonders against Egypt, against Pharaoh, and against all his household; 23 📚and he brought us from there, so that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. 24 📚And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, so that he might keep us alive, as it is today. 25 📚And it will be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments in the presence of the LORD our God, just as he has commanded us”.