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Verse 1

These are the commandments, statutes, and judgments that the LORD your God commanded to teach you to carry out in the land you are about to cross into and possess.

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:

Verse 2

So that you may fear the LORD your God by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I am commanding you today—you, your children, and your grandchildren—all the days of your life, and so 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.

Verse 3

Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey, so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in the land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has promised you.

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.

Verse 4

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

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

Verse 5

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, 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.

Verse 6

These words that I am commanding you today are to be upon your heart.

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

Verse 7

Teach them diligently to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along 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.

Verse 8

Bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

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

Verse 9

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.

Verse 10

When the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your ancestors—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to you, with cities great and good that 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,

Verse 11

with houses full of every good thing that you did not fill, wells that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—when 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;

Verse 12

Be careful not to 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.

Verse 13

Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.

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

Verse 14

Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

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

Verse 15

For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. His anger will burn against you, and He will destroy you from 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.

Verse 16

Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah.

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

Verse 17

Diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, as well as His testimonies and statutes that 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.

Verse 18

Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may go well with you, and you may go in and possess the good land the LORD promised to your ancestors.

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,

Verse 19

He will drive out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has promised.

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

Verse 20

In the future, when your son asks you, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies, statutes, and judgments that the LORD our God has 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?

Verse 21

You shall say to your son: 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but 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:

Verse 22

The LORD performed great and distressing signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh, and his whole household.

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

Verse 23

But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He swore 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.

Verse 24

The LORD commanded us to obey all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God for our own good always, so that He might preserve our lives, 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.

Verse 25

It will be righteousness for us if we carefully obey all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has 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.

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