Deuteronomy 6

vezot hammitsvah hakhuqqim vehammishpatim asher tsivvah Adonai elohekhem lelammed etkhem la'asot ba'arets asher attem overim shammah lerishtah

And this is the Instruction—the laws and the rules—that the ETERNAL your God has commanded [me] to impart to you, to be observed in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy,

lema'an tira et-Adonai elohekha lishmor et-kol-khuqqotayw umitsvotayw asher anokhi metsavvekha attah uvinkha uven-binkha kol yeme khayyekha ulema'an ya'arikhun yamekha

so that you, your children, and your children’s children may revere the ETERNAL your God and follow, as long as you live, all the laws and commandments that I enjoin upon you, to the end that you may long endure.

veshamata yisra'el veshamarta la'asot asher yitav lekha va'asher tirbun me'od ka'asher dibber Adonai elohe avotekha lakh erets zavat khalav udevash

Obey, O Israel, willingly and faithfully, that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly [in] a land flowing with milk and honey, as the ETERNAL, the God of your ancestors, spoke to you.

shema yisra'el Adonai elohenu Adonai ekhad

Hear, O Israel! The ETERNAL is our God, the ETERNAL alone.

ve'ahavta et Adonai elohekha bekhol-levavekha uvekhol-nafshekha uvekhol-me'odekha

You shall love the ETERNAL your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

vehayu haddevarim ha'elleh asher anokhi metsavvekha hayyom al-levavekha

Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day.

veshinnantam levanekha vedibbarta bam beshivtekha bevetekha uvelekhtekha vadderekh uveshokhbekha uvequmekha

Impress them upon your children. Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.

uqeshartam le'ot al-yadekha vehayu letotafot ben enekha

Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead;

ukhetavtam al-mezuzot betekha uvisharekha

inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

vehayah ki yevi'akha Adonai elohekha el-ha'arets asher nishba la'avotekha le'avraham leyitskhaq uleya'aqov latet lakh arim gedolot vetovot asher lo-vanita

When the ETERNAL your God brings you into the land that was sworn to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to be assigned to you—great and flourishing cities that you did not build,

uvattim mele'im kol-tuv asher lo-milleta uvorot khatsuvim asher lo-khatsavta keramim vezetim asher lo-nata'eta ve'akhalta vesava'eta

houses full of all good things that you did not fill, hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and you eat your fill,

hishamer lekha pen-tishkakh et-Adonai asher hotsi'akha me'erets mitsrayim mibbet avadim

take heed that you do not forget GOD, who freed you from the land of Egypt, the house of bondage.

et-Adonai elohekha tira ve'oto ta'avod uvishmo tishavea

Revere only the ETERNAL your God; worship [God] alone; swear only by God’s name.

lo telekhun akhare elohim akherim me'elohe ha'ammim asher sevivotekhem

Do not follow other gods, any gods of the peoples about you—

ki el qanna Adonai elohekha beqirbekha pen-yekhereh af-Adonai elohekha bakh vehishmidekha me'al pene ha'adamah

for the ETERNAL your God in your midst is an impassioned God—lest the anger of the ETERNAL your God blaze forth against you, wiping you off the face of the earth.

lo tenassu et-Adonai elohekhem ka'asher nissitem bammassah

Do not try the ETERNAL your God, as you did at Massah.

shamor tishmerun et-mitsvot Adonai elohekhem ve'edotayw vekhuqqayw asher tsivvakh

Be sure to keep the commandments, decrees, and laws that the ETERNAL your God has enjoined upon you.

ve'asita hayyashar vehattov be'ene Adonai lema'an yitav lakh uvata veyarashta et-ha'arets hattovah asher-nishba Adonai la'avotekha

Do what is right and good in the sight of GOD, that it may go well with you and that you may be able to possess the good land that the ETERNAL your God promised on oath to your fathers,

lahadof et-kol-oyevekha mippanekha ka'asher dibber Adonai

and that all your enemies may be driven out before you, as GOD has spoken.

ki-yishalekha vinkha makhar lemor mah ha'edot vehakhuqqim vehammishpatim asher tsivvah Adonai elohenu etkhem

When, in time to come, your children ask you, “What mean the decrees, laws, and rules that the ETERNAL our God has enjoined upon you?”

ve'amarta levinkha avadim hayinu lefaroh bemitsrayim vayyotsi'enu Adonai mimmitsrayim beyad khazaqah

you shall say to your children, “We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt and GOD freed us from Egypt with a mighty hand.

vayyitten Adonai otot umofetim gedolim vera'im bemitsrayim befaroh uvekhol-beto le'enenu

GOD wrought before our eyes marvelous and destructive signs and portents in Egypt—against Pharaoh and all his household—

ve'otanu hotsi misham lema'an havi otanu latet lanu et-ha'arets asher nishba la'avotenu

and freed us from there, in order to take us and give us the land promised on oath to our fathers.

vayetsavvenu Adonai la'asot et-kol-hakhuqqim ha'elleh leyirah et-Adonai elohenu letov lanu kol-hayyamim lekhayyotenu kehayyom hazzeh

Then the ETERNAL commanded us to observe all these laws, to revere the ETERNAL our God, for our lasting good and for our survival, as is now the case.

utsedaqah tihyeh-llanu ki-nishmor la'asot et-kol-hammitsvah hazzot lifne Adonai elohenu ka'asher tsivvanu

It will be therefore to our merit before the ETERNAL our God to observe faithfully this whole Instruction, as we have been commanded.”