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Deuteronomy 6 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:1 - Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2 - So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:4 - Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:5 - And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:6 - Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:7 - Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:8 - Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:9 - Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 - And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:11 - And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:12 - Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:13 - Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:14 - Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15 - For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:16 - Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:17 - Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18 - And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:19 - To send out from before you all those who are against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:20 - And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:21 - Then you will say to your son, We were servants under Pharaoh's yoke in Egypt; and the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:22 - And the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt, and against Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:23 - And he took us out from that place, guiding us here to give us this land, as he said in his oath to our fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:24 - And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:25 - And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.
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