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Deuteronomy 6 |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: |
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And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. |
6 |
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in
thine heart: |
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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. |
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And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they
shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. |
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And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on
thy gates. |
10 |
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, |
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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; |
12 |
Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee
forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. |
13 |
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt
swear by his name. |
14 |
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people
which are round about you; |
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(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. |
16 |
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in
Massah. |
17 |
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your
God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath
commanded thee. |
18 |
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. |
19 |
To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD
hath spoken. |
20 |
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? |
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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: |
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And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon
Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our
eyes: |
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And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in,
to give us the land which he sware unto 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 always, that he might preserve us
alive, as it is at this day. |
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And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all
these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded
us. |