Love for God

1 And this is the commandment, these are the statutes and the judgments, which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you to perform in the land to which you go over to possess it, 2 so that you may fear before the Lord your God, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you; you, your sons, and your sons' sons, all the days of your life, that you may live long. 3 And you, Israel, shall receive, and keep, and perform, so that things may go well for you, and you may increase greatly, as the Lord God of your fathers has said to you, in the land which produces milk and honey. 4 Listen, Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord: 5 and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your wealth.⁠a 6 And these words that I command you today shall be upon your heart. 7 And you shall teach them to your children, and talk of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you travel, and when you lie down and when you get up. 8 And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for tephillin between your eyes; 9 and you shall write them upon the doorposts, and affix them to the lintels of your house, and upon your gates.

Remembering God in the Land

10 And it shall be, when the Lord your God has brought you into the land which He promised to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and fine cities which you did not build, 11 and houses full of goods that you did not fill, and cisterns dug out which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you have eaten and are full; 12 be careful not to forget the fear of the Lord who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery. 13 You shall fear the Lord your God, and serve before Him, and swear by His Name. 14 You shall not go after the idols of the Gentiles, the idols of the peoples who surround you 15 for the Lord your God is a jealous God, His Shekinah dwells among you, otherwise the anger of the Lord your God will be kindled against you, and He will destroy you from the face of the earth. 16 You shall not test the Lord your God as you tested Him in the testing: 17 you shall carefully keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes He has commanded you, 18 and do what is right and good before the Lord, so that things may go well for you, and you may enter in and possess the good land which the Lord swore to your fathers 19 to defeat all your enemies before you, as He has said.

Teaching the Children

20 When your son asks you in the future, saying, What are the testimonies, statutes, and judgments, which the Lord our God has commanded you? 21 then you shall say, We were servants to Pharaoh in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, 22 and performed great and terrible miracles against Pharaoh, and all the men of his house, before our eyes; 23 and He brought us out from there, to bring us in, to give us the land which He swore to our fathers. 24 And the Lord commanded us to perform all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, so that things may always go well for us and He may keep us alive, as we are today. 25 And it shall be our righteousness to take care to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.