Deuteronomy 6
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Deuteronomy 6:4-15

4“Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one [the only God]!

5You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and with all your soul and with all your strength [your entire being].

6These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be [written] on your heart and mind.

7You shall teach them diligently to your children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths] and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.

8And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand (forearm), and they shall be used as bands (frontals, frontlets) on your forehead.

9You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

10“Then it shall come about when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore (solemnly promised) to [give] your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give you, [a land with] great and splendid cities which you did not build,

11and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn (excavated) cisterns (wells) which you did not dig out, and vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are full and satisfied,

12then beware that you do not forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

13You shall fear [only] the Lord your God; and you shall serve Him [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect] and swear [oaths] by His name [alone].

14You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,

15for the Lord your God who is among you is a jealous (impassioned) God [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely His]—otherwise the anger of the Lord your God will be kindled and burn against you, and He will destroy you from the face of the earth.

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