The Greatest Commandment
1 “This is the command — the statutes and ordinances — theLordyour God has instructed me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess.
2 Do this so that you may feartheLordyour Godall the days of your lifeby keeping all His statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life.
3 Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.
4 “Listen, Israel: TheLordour God, theLordis One.
5 Love theLordyour God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6 These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.
7 Repeat them to your children.Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
8 Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbolon your forehead.
9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Remembering God through Obedience
10 “When theLordyour God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that He would give you — a land with large and beautiful cities that you did not build,
11 houses full of every good thing that you did not fill them with, wells dug that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant— and when you eat and are satisfied,
12 be careful not to forget theLordwho brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.
13 Fear Yahweh your God, worship Him, and take your oaths in His name.
14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,
15 for theLordyour God, who is among you, is a jealous God.Otherwise, theLordyour God will become angry with you and wipe you off the face of the earth.
16 Do not testtheLordyour God as you tested Him at Massah.
17 Carefully observe the commands of theLordyour God, the decrees and statutes He has commanded you.
18 Do what is right and good in theLord’s sight, so that you may prosper and so that you may enter and possess the good landtheLordyour God swore to give your fathers,
19 by driving out all your enemies before you, as theLordhas said.
20 “When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaningof the decrees, statutes, and ordinances, which theLordour God has commanded you? ’
21 tell him, ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but theLordbrought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.
22 Before our eyes theLordinflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt,on Pharaoh, and on all his household,
23 but He brought us from there in order to lead us in and give us the land that He swore to our fathers.
24 TheLordcommanded us to follow all these statutes and to fear theLordour God for our prosperity always and for our preservation, as it is today.
25 Righteousness will be ours if we are careful to follow every one of these commands before theLordour God, as He has commanded us.’
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