1 “And this was the command, the statutes and the judgments which your God YHWH has commanded to teach you to do in the land which you are passing over there to possess it, 2 so that you fear your God YHWH, to keep all His statutes and His commands which I am commanding you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life, and so that your days are prolonged. 3 And you have heard, O Israel, and observed to do them, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply exceedingly, as YHWH, God of your fathers, has spoken to you, in the land flowing with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel: Our God YHWH—YHWH is one! 5 And you will love your God YHWH with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6 And these words which I am commanding you today will be on your heart, 7 and you will repeat them to your sons, and speak of them in your sitting in your house, and in your walking in the way, and in your lying down, and in your rising up, 8 and bind them for a sign on your hand, and they will be for frontlets between your eyes, 9 and you will write them on doorposts of your house and on your gates. 10 And it will be, when your God YHWH brings you into the land which He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to you great and good cities which you have not built, 11 and houses full of all good things which you have not filled, and wells dug which you have not dug, vineyards and olive-yards which you have not planted, that you will eat and be satisfied. 12 Take heed to yourself lest you forget YHWH who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants. 13 You will fear your God YHWH, and serve Him, and swear by His name. 14 You will not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, 15 for your God YHWH is a zealous God in your middle—lest the anger of your God YHWH burns against you, and He destroys you from off the face of the ground. 16 You will not try your God YHWH as you tried Him in Massah. 17 You will diligently keep the commands of your God YHWH, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you, 18 and you will do that which is right and good in the eyes of YHWH, so that it is well with you, and you will go in and possess the good land which YHWH has sworn to your fathers, 19 to drive away all your enemies from your presence, as YHWH has spoken. 20 When your son asks you hereafter, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments which our God YHWH has commanded you? 21 Then you will say to your son, We were servants of Pharaoh in Egypt, and YHWH brought us out of Egypt by a high hand. 22 And YHWH gave signs and wonders, great and severe, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes. 23 And He brought us out from there, in order to bring us in, to give to us the land which He had sworn to our fathers. 24 And YHWH commands us to do all these statutes, to fear our God YHWH, for good to ourselves for all the days, to keep us alive, as at this day. 25 And it will be righteous for us when we observe to do all this commands before our God YHWH, as He has commanded us.”