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<a href ="../mark/12.htm#28">Mark 12:28–34</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said. <A name="21"></a><p class="hdg">Teach Your Children<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?” <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>The LORD our God is One LORD</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>The LORD is our God, the LORD is One</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>The LORD is our God, the LORD alone</i><span class="thin"> </span>; cited in <a href="../mark/12.htm#29">Mark 12:29</a><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Cited in <a href="../matthew/22.htm#37">Matthew 22:37</a>, <a href="../mark/12.htm#30">Mark 12:30</a>, and <a href="../luke/10.htm#27">Luke 10:27</a><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>serve Him, and take your oaths only in His name</i><span class="thin"> </span>; cited in <a href="../matthew/4.htm#10">Matthew 4:10</a> and <a href="../luke/4.htm#8">Luke 4:8</a><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <i>Massah</i><span class="thin"> </span> means <i>testing</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see <a href="../exodus/17.htm#7">Exodus 17:7</a>; cited in <a href="../matthew/4.htm#7">Matthew 4:7</a> and <a href="../luke/4.htm#12">Luke 4:12</a>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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