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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"This is the command--the statutes and ordinances--the LORD your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Do this so that you may fear the LORD your God all the days of your life by keeping all his statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Listen, Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give you--a land with large and beautiful cities that you did not build, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11houses full of every good thing that you did not fill them with, cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant--and when you eat and are satisfied, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Fear the LORD your God, worship him, and take your oaths in his name. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise, the LORD your God will become angry with you and obliterate you from the face of the earth. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Do not test the LORD your God as you tested him at Massah. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Carefully observe the commands of the LORD your God, the decrees and statutes he has commanded you. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Do what is right and good in the LORD's sight, so that you may prosper and so that you may enter and possess the good land the LORD your God swore to give your fathers, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19by driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"When your son asks you in the future, 'What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?' |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21tell him, 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23but he brought us from there in order to lead us in and give us the land that he swore to our fathers. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The LORD commanded us to follow all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God for our prosperity always and for our preservation, as it is today. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Righteousness will be ours if we are careful to follow every one of these commands before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.' |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. |
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