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¹ This, then is the commandment - namely the statutes and the regulations, which Yahweh your God bath commanded to teach you, - that ye may do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it:² that thou mayest revere Yahweh thy God, so as to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I am commanding thee, thou and thy son and thy sons' son, all the days of thy life, - and that thy days may be prolonged.³ Therefore shalt thou hear, O Israel, and shalt observe to do, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may multiply greatly, as Yahweh the God of thy fathom hath spoken to thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴ Hear, O Israel: Yahweh, is our God, - Yahweh alone.⁵ Thou shalt therefore love Yahweh thy God, - with all thy heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy might;⁶ so shall these words which I am commanding thee to-day, be upon thy heart;⁷ and thou shalt impress them upon thy sons, and shalt speak of them, - when thou sittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up;⁸ and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, - and they shall serve for bands between thine eyes;⁹ and thou shalt write them upon the pests of thy house and within thy gates.¹⁰ So shall it be, when Yahweh thy God shall bring thee into the land, which he sware to thy fathers - to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give unto thee, - into cities great and goodly, which thou didst not build;¹¹ and houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and hewn cisterns which thou hewedst not, vineyards and oliveyards which thou plantedst not, - and shalt eat and be full,¹² take heed unto thyself, lest thou forget Yahweh, - who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt out of the house of servants.¹³ Yahweh thy God, shalt thou revere And him, shalt thou serve, - And by his name, shalt thou swear.¹⁴ Ye shall not go after other gods, - of the gods of the peoples who are surrounding you;¹⁵ for a jealous GOD, is Yahweh thy God in thy midst, - lest the anger of Yahweh thy God kindle upon thee, and so he destroy thee from off the face of the ground.¹⁶ Ye shall not put Yahweh your God to the proof, - as ye put him to the proof in Massah that is, "The place of proving" .

¹⁷ Ye shall, keep, the commandments of Yahweh your God and his testimonies and his statutes which he hath commanded thee;¹⁸ so shalt thou do what is right and what is pleasing in the eyes of Yahweh, - that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest enter in and possess the good land, which Yahweh sware unto thy fathers;¹⁹ to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, - As spake Yahweh.²⁰ When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, - What mean the testimonies and the statutes and the regulations, which Yahweh our God commanded you?²¹ Then shalt thou say unto thy son, Servants, were we unto Pharaoh in Egypt, - and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a firm hand;²² and Yahweh put forth signs and wonders great and sore upon Egypt upon Pharaoh and upon all his household before our eyes;²³ but he brought us forth from thence, - that he might bring us in, to give unto us the land, which he sware unto our fathers.²⁴ So then Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to revere Yahweh our God, - for our good, all the days, to preserve us alive as at this day;²⁵ and righteousness, shall it he to us, - when we take heed to do all this commandment, before Yahweh our God, as he commanded us.