1. This then is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances, which the Lord, your God, has commanded that you be taught to observe in the land you are about to cross into to possess,
2. so that you, that is, you, your child, and your grandchild, may fear the Lord, your God, by keeping, as long as you live, all his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you, and thus have long life.
3. Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them, that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly; for the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.
4. Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone!
5. Therefore, you shall love the Lord, your God, with your whole heart, and with your whole being, and with your whole strength.
6. Take to heart these words which I command you today.
7. Keep repeating them to your children. Recite them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.
8. Bind them on your arm as a sign and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.
9. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
10. When the Lord, 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,
11. 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,
12. be careful not to forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that house of slavery.
13. The Lord, your God, shall you fear; him shall you serve, and by his name shall you swear.
14. You shall not go after other gods, any of the gods of the surrounding peoples—
15. for the Lord, your God who is in your midst, is a passionate God—lest the anger of the Lord, your God, flare up against you and he destroy you from upon the land.