| 1 These are the commands, decrees and laws the
LORD your God directed me to teach you to
observe in the land that you are crossing the
Jordan to possess,
2 so that you, your children and their children
after them may fear the LORD your God as long
as you live by keeping all his decrees and
commands that I give you, and so that you may
enjoy long life.
3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it
may go well with you and that you may increase
greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey,
just as the LORD, the God of your fathers,
promised you.
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD
is one.
5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your strength.
6 These commandments that I give you today are
to be upon your hearts.
7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them
when you sit at home and when you walk along
the road, when you lie down and when you
get up.
8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind
them on your foreheads.
9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and
on your gates.
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