Deuteronomy 6 · Parashat Vaetchanan

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land into which you go to possess it:

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.

Hear therefore, O Yisra᾽el, and take care to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that you may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers has promised thee, in the land that flows with milk and honey.

Hear, O Yisra᾽el: The Lord our God; the Lord is one.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

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

and thou shalt teach them diligently to thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

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

And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thy house, and on thy gates.

And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall bring thee to the land of which he swore to thy fathers, to Avraham, to Yiżĥaq, and to Ya῾aqov, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,

and houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and hewn out wells, which thou didst not dig, vineyards and olive trees, which thou didst not plant; when thou shalt eat and be replete;

beware lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Miżrayim, from the house of bondage.

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

You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people who are round about you;

(for the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be inflamed against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

Do not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted him in Massa.

You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded thee.

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 mayst go in and possess the good land which the Lord swore to thy fathers,

to cast out all thy enemies from before thee, as the Lord has spoken.

When thy son asks thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God has commanded you?

Then thou shalt say to thy son, We were the bondmen of Par῾o in Miżrayim; and the Lord brought us out of Miżrayim with a mighty hand:

and the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Miżrayim, upon Par῾o, and upon all his household, before our eyes:

and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.

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.

And it shall be accounted virtue in us, if we take care to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.