4. “Listen, O Israel! The lord is our God, the lord alone.
5. And you must love the lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.
6. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today.
7. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.
8. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders.
9. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
10. “The lord your God will soon bring you into the land he swore to give you when he made a vow to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is a land with large, prosperous cities that you did not build.