| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“These are the commands, decrees, and regulations that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you. You must obey them in the land you are about to enter and occupy, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and you and your children and grandchildren must fear the LORD your God as long as you live. If you obey all his decrees and commands, you will enjoy a long life. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Listen closely, Israel, and be careful to obey. Then all will go well with you, and you will have many children in the land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4“Listen, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10“The LORD your God will soon bring you into the land he swore to give you when he made a vow to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is a land with large, prosperous cities that you did not build. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The houses will be richly stocked with goods you did not produce. You will draw water from cisterns you did not dig, and you will eat from vineyards and olive trees you did not plant. When you have eaten your fill in this land, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12be careful not to forget the LORD, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13You must fear the LORD your God and serve him. When you take an oath, you must use only his name. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14“You must not worship any of the gods of neighboring nations, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15for the LORD your God, who lives among you, is a jealous God. His anger will flare up against you, and he will wipe you from the face of the earth. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16You must not test the LORD your God as you did when you complained at Massah. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17You must diligently obey the commands of the LORD your God—all the laws and decrees he has given you. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Do what is right and good in the LORD’s sight, so all will go well with you. Then you will enter and occupy the good land that the LORD swore to give your ancestors. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You will drive out all the enemies living in the land, just as the LORD said you would. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20“In the future your children will ask you, ‘What is the meaning of these laws, decrees, and regulations that the LORD our God has commanded us to obey?’ |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21“Then you must tell them, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with his strong hand. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The LORD did miraculous signs and wonders before our eyes, dealing terrifying blows against Egypt and Pharaoh and all his people. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He brought us out of Egypt so he could give us this land he had sworn to give our ancestors. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And the LORD our God commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear him so he can continue to bless us and preserve our lives, as he has done to this day. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For we will be counted as righteous when we obey all the commands the LORD our God has given us.’ |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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