Chapter 6
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Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments that the LORD your God commanded to teach you, so that you may do them in the land that you are crossing over into to possess it.
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so that you fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I am commanding you, you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life, and so that your days may be prolonged.
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Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey, so that it will be good for you and so that you will multiply greatly, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, spoke to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
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Hear, Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one.
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And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
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These words that I am commanding you today shall be on your heart.
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You shall impress them on your children. You shall speak in them when you sit in your house, when you go on the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
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You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
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You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
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And it shall be that when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—great and good cities that you did not build.
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houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and wells hewn which you did not hew, vineyards and olives which you did not plant—and you ate and were satisfied.
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Take care that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him, and swear by his name.
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Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you.
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for the LORD your God, who is a jealous God, is in your midst, lest the anger of the LORD your God burn against you and he destroy you from the face of the ground.
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You shall not test the LORD your God as you tested him at Massah.
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You shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he commanded you.
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You shall do what is upright and good in the eyes of the LORD, in order that it may be well for you, and you shall come and possess the good land that the LORD swore to your fathers.
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to drive out all your enemies from before you, just as the LORD spoke.
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When your son asks you in time to come, saying, "What are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments that the LORD our God commanded you?"
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Then you shall say to your son, "We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand."
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And the LORD showed great and terrible signs and wonders in Egypt, before Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes.
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He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land that he swore to our fathers.
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And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good all the days of our life, as at this day.
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And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God just as he commanded us.