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Now this is the commandment , the statutes , and the ordinances , which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it;
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that thou mightest fear Jehovah thy God , to keep all his statutes and his commandments , which I command thee, thou, and thy son , and thy son's son , all the days of thy life ; and that thy days may be prolonged .
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Hear therefore, O Israel , and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as Jehovah , the God of thy fathers , hath promised unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey .
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Hear , O Israel : Jehovah our God is one Jehovah :
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and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul , and with all thy might .
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And these words , which I command thee this day , shall be upon thy heart;
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and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children , and shalt talk 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.
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And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand , and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes .
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And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house , and upon thy gates .
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And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers , to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob , to give thee, great and goodly cities , which thou buildest not,
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and houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and cisterns hewn out, which thou hewedst not, vineyards and olive -trees, which thou plantedst not, and thou shalt eat and be full ;
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then beware lest thou forget Jehovah , who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt , out of the house of bondage.
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Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God ; and him shalt thou serve , and shalt swear by his name .
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Ye shall not go after other gods , of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;
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for Jehovah thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God ; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
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Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God , as ye tempted him in Massah.
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Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God , and his testimonies, and his statutes , which he hath commanded thee.
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And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of Jehovah ; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers ,
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to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken .
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When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes , and the ordinances , which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?
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then thou shalt say unto thy son , We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt : and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand ;
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and Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt , upon Pharaoh , and upon all his house , before our eyes ;
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and he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers .
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And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes , to fear Jehovah our God , for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day .
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And it shall be righteousness unto us , if we observe to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God , as he hath commanded us .