TorahOld Testament
Chapter 6· Book V of 39
1Verse 1. Open verse actions.Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; 2Verse 2. Open verse actions.that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you; you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. 3Verse 3. Open verse actions.Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 4Verse 4. Open verse actions.Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. 5Verse 5. Open verse actions.You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. 6Verse 6. Open verse actions.These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; 7Verse 7. Open verse actions.and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8Verse 8. Open verse actions.You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 9Verse 9. Open verse actions.You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates. 10Verse 10. Open verse actions.It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build, 11Verse 11. Open verse actions.and houses full of all good things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full; 12Verse 12. Open verse actions.then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 13Verse 13. Open verse actions.You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name. 14Verse 14. Open verse actions.You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you; 15Verse 15. Open verse actions.for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. 16Verse 16. Open verse actions.You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah. 17Verse 17. Open verse actions.You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 18Verse 18. Open verse actions.You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, 19Verse 19. Open verse actions.to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken. 20Verse 20. Open verse actions.When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?” 21Verse 21. Open verse actions.then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; 22Verse 22. Open verse actions.and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes; 23Verse 23. Open verse actions.and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. 24Verse 24. Open verse actions.Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today. 25Verse 25. Open verse actions.It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”