These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Deuteronomy 6
Tanakh 25 verses
- 1 Now this is the , the statutes, and the ordinances, which your 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 thy , 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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Exodus 20:20 Psalm 128:1 Ecclesiastes 12:13 Deuteronomy 13:4 Deuteronomy 10:12-13 Psalm 111:10 Deuteronomy 4:40 Deuteronomy 10:20 Deuteronomy 4:10 1 Peter 1:17 Proverbs 16:6 Deuteronomy 6:7 Genesis 22:12 Luke 12:5 Psalm 78:4-8 Job 28:28 1 Peter 3:10-11 Genesis 18:19 Proverbs 3:1-2 Deuteronomy 5:33 Proverbs 3:16 Deuteronomy 22:7 Deuteronomy 5:16 - 3 Hear therefore, O , and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as , the of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee—a land flowing with milk and honey.
- 4 HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE OUR , THE IS ONE.
- 5 And thou shalt thy with all thy , and with all thy , and with all thy might.
- 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy ;
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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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Ephesians 6:4 Deuteronomy 11:19 Exodus 12:26-27 Deuteronomy 4:9-10 Deuteronomy 6:2 Exodus 13:14-15 Genesis 18:19 Malachi 3:16 Proverbs 15:7 Psalm 78:4-6 Proverbs 10:21 1 Peter 3:15 Luke 6:45 Proverbs 15:2 Proverbs 6:22 Psalm 40:9-10 Ephesians 4:29 Matthew 12:35 Psalm 129:8 Psalm 119:46 Colossians 4:6 Ruth 4:11 Psalm 37:30 -
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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 thy shall bring thee into the land which He swore unto thy fathers, to , to , and to , to give thee—great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,
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- 11 and houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which thou the didst not hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied—
- 12 then beware lest thou forget , who brought thee forth out of the land of , out of the house of bondage.
- 13 Thou shalt thy ; and Him shalt thou , and by His shalt thou swear.
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Ye shall not go after other Elohims, of the Elohims of the peoples that are round about you;
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- 15 for a jealous , even thy , is in the midst of thee; lest the anger of thy be kindled against thee, and He destroy thee from off the of the earth.
- 16 Ye shall not try your , as ye tried Him in Massah.
- 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of your , 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 ; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which swore unto thy fathers,
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to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as 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 our hath commanded you?
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- 21 then thou shalt say unto thy son: ‘We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in ; and brought us out of with a mighty hand.
- 22 And showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon , 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 swore unto our fathers.
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- 24 And commanded us to do all these statutes, to our , for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
- 25 And it shall be unto us, if we observe to do all this before our , as He hath commanded us.’