1 "This is the commandment, the statutes and the rules, that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you to carry out in the land you are crossing over to possess,
2 so that you, your son, and your grandson may fear the LORD your God all the days of your life by keeping all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you, and so that you may live long.
3 Listen, Israel, and be careful to do them, so that it may go well with you and you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
4 "Hear, Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one.
5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6 These words I am commanding you today are to be on your heart.
7 Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you are sitting at home and when you are out on the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
8 Tie them as a sign on your hand, and let them be as a band between your eyes.
9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
10 "The LORD your God will bring you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you, a land with large, fine cities you did not build,
11 houses full of all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells dug that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees you did not plant. When you eat and are satisfied,
12 be careful not to forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.
13 Fear the LORD your God, serve him, and swear by his name.
14 Do not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples around you,
15 for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will flare up against you, and he will wipe you off the face of the land.
16 "Do not put the LORD your God to the test as you tested him at Massah.
17 Be sure to keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and the testimonies and statutes he has commanded you.
18 Do what is right and good in the LORD's eyes, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take possession of the good land the LORD swore to give your fathers,
19 driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
20 "In the future, when your son asks you, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules the LORD our God has commanded you?'
21 tell him, 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.
22 Before our eyes the LORD sent great and terrible signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.
23 But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land he swore to our fathers.
24 The LORD commanded us to carry out all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, for our own good always, so that he might keep us alive, as we are today.
25 And it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to carry out this whole commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.'