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Recite them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.<a id="ren05006007-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006007-h">h</a> <span id="v05006008" class="ver">8</span>Bind them on your arm as a sign<a id="rfn05006008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05006008-1">*</a> and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.<a id="ren05006008-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006008-i">i</a> <span id="v05006009" class="ver">9</span>Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.<a id="ren05006009-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006009-j">j</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Fidelity in Prosperity.</span> <span id="v05006010" class="ver">10</span><a id="ren05006010-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006010-k">k</a> When the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, brings you into the land which he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give you, a land with fine, large cities that you did not build,<a id="ren05006010-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006010-l">l</a> <span id="v05006011" class="ver">11</span>with houses full of goods of all sorts that you did not garner, with cisterns that you did not dig, with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant; and when, therefore, you eat and are satisfied,<a id="ren05006011-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006011-m">m</a> <span id="v05006012" class="ver">12</span><a id="ren05006012-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006012-n">n</a> be careful not to forget the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that house of slavery. <span id="v05006013" class="ver">13</span><a id="ren05006013-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006013-o">o</a> The <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, shall you fear; him shall you serve,<a id="rfn05006013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05006013-1">*</a> and by his name shall you swear. <span id="v05006014" class="ver">14</span><a id="ren05006014-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006014-p">p</a> You shall not go after other gods, any of the gods of the surrounding peoples— <span id="v05006015" class="ver">15</span>for the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God who is in your midst, is a passionate God—lest the anger of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, flare up against you and he destroy you from upon the land.</p> <p><span id="v05006016" class="ver">16</span>You shall not put the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, to the test, as you did at Massah.<a id="ren05006016-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006016-q">q</a> <span id="v05006017" class="ver">17</span>But keep the commandments of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, and the decrees and the statutes he has commanded you. <span id="v05006018" class="ver">18</span>Do what is right and good in the sight of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, that it may go well with you, and you may enter in and possess the good land which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> promised on oath to your ancestors, <span id="v05006019" class="ver">19</span>driving all your enemies out of your way, as the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has promised.<a id="ren05006019-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006019-r">r</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Instruction to Children.</span> <span id="v05006020" class="ver">20</span><a id="ren05006020-s" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006020-s">s</a> Later on, when your son asks you, “What do these decrees and statutes and ordinances mean?”<a id="ren05006020-t" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006020-t">t</a> which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, has enjoined on you, <span id="v05006021" class="ver">21</span><a id="ren05006021-u" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006021-u">u</a> you shall say to your son, “We were once slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand<a id="ren05006021-v" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006021-v">v</a> <span id="v05006022" class="ver">22</span>and wrought before our eyes signs and wonders, great and dire, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and his whole house. <span id="v05006023" class="ver">23</span>He brought us from there to bring us in and give us the land he had promised on oath to our ancestors.<a id="ren05006023-w" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006023-w">w</a> <span id="v05006024" class="ver">24</span><a id="ren05006024-x" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05006024-x">x</a> The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> commanded us to observe all these statutes in fear of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, that we may always have as good a life as we have today. <span id="v05006025" class="ver">25</span>This is our justice before the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God: to observe carefully this whole commandment he has enjoined on us.”</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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