1 N ow this is the instruction, the laws, and the precepts which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess it,

¶ Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the rights, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you that ye might do them in the land into which ye go to inherit it

2 T hat you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

that thou might 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.

3 H ear therefore, O Israel, and be watchful to do them, that it may be well with you and that you may increase exceedingly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it that it may be well with thee and that ye may be multiplied exceedingly (as the LORD God of thy fathers has said unto thee) in the land that flows with milk and honey.

4 H ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord.

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

5 A nd you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with your entire being and with all your might.

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might.

6 A nd these words which I am commanding you this day shall be in your minds and hearts;

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

7 Y ou shall whet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the hearts of 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.

and thou shalt repeat them diligently unto thy sons and shalt talk of them being in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up;

8 A nd you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets (forehead bands) between your eyes.

and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thy eyes;

9 A nd you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

and thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and on thy gates.

10 A nd when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you, with great and goodly cities which you did not build,

And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it unto thee: great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,

11 A nd houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out which you did not hew, and vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and when you eat and are full,

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 have eaten and be full,

12 T hen beware lest you forget the Lord, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

then beware lest thou forget the LORD, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

13 Y ou shall fear the Lord your God and serve Him and swear by His name.

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

14 Y ou shall not go after other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;

Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you

15 F or the Lord your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and He destroy you from the face of the earth.

(for the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest peradventure the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

16 Y ou shall not tempt and try the Lord your God as you tempted and tried Him in Massah.

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

17 Y ou shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God and His exhortations and His statutes which He commanded you.

¶ Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded thee.

18 A nd you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may go well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers,

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 may enter in and inherit the good land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers

19 T o cast out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has promised.

so that he will cast out all thine enemies from before thy presence, as the LORD has spoken.

20 W hen your son asks you in time to come, What is the meaning of the testimonies and statutes and precepts which the Lord our God has commanded you?

And when tomorrow thy son asks thee, saying, What are the testimonies and the statutes and the rights, which the LORD our God has commanded you?

21 T hen you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

22 A nd the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and evil, against Egypt, against Pharaoh, and all his household, before our eyes;

and the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, in Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes;

23 A nd He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in to give us the land which He swore to give our fathers.

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

24 A nd 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 this day.

And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes that we might fear the LORD our God for our good always that he might give us life, as it is at this day.

25 A nd it will be accounted as righteousness (conformity to God’s will in word, thought, and action) for us if we are watchful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.

And we shall have justice when we keep ourselves by doing all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.