Deuteronomy 6:1-15

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The Greatest Commandment

6 “Now this is ^(A)the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, ²^(B)that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, ^(C)and that your days may be prolonged. ³Therefore hear, O Israel, and ^[a]be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may ^(D)multiply greatly ^(E)as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you—^(F)‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’

⁴^(G)“Hear, O Israel: ^[b]The Lord our God, the Lord is one! ⁵^(H)You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, ^(I)with all your soul, and with all your strength.

⁶“And ^(J)these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. ⁷^(K)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ⁸^(L)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹^(M)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Caution Against Disobedience

¹⁰“So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He ^[c]swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities ^(N)which you did not build, ¹¹houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—^(O)when you have eaten and are full— ¹²then beware, lest you forget the ^(P)Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. ¹³You shall ^(Q)fear the Lord your God and serve Him, and ^(R)shall take oaths in His name. ¹⁴You shall not go after other gods, ^(S)the gods of the peoples who are all around you ¹⁵(for ^(T)the Lord your God is a jealous God ^(U)among you), lest the anger of the Lord your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 6:3 Lit. observe to do
Deuteronomy 6:4 Or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone, i.e., the only one
Deuteronomy 6:10 promised

Deuteronomy 11:13-21

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¹³‘And it shall be that if you earnestly ^[a]obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹⁴then ^(A)I^[b] will give you the rain for your land in its season, ^(B)the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. ¹⁵^(C)And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may ^(D)eat and be ^[c]filled.’ ¹⁶Take heed to yourselves, ^(E)lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and ^(F)serve other gods and worship them, ¹⁷lest ^(G)the Lord’s anger be aroused against you, and He ^(H)shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and ^(I)you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

¹⁸“Therefore ^(J)you shall ^[d]lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your ^(K)soul, and ^(L)bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ¹⁹^(M)You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ²⁰^(N)And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, ²¹that ^(O)your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like ^(P)the days of the heavens above the earth.

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 11:13 Lit. listen to
Deuteronomy 11:14 So with MT, Tg.; Sam., LXX, Vg. He
Deuteronomy 11:15 satisfied
Deuteronomy 11:18 Lit. put

Psalm 78:1-8

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God’s Kindness to Rebellious Israel

A ^(A)Contemplation^[a] of Asaph.

78 Give ear, O my people, to my law;
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
²I will open my mouth in a ^(B)parable;
I will utter ^[b]dark sayings of old,
³Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.
⁴^(C)We will not hide them from their children,
^(D)Telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.

⁵For ^(E)He established a testimony in Jacob,
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers,
That ^(F)they should make them known to their children;
⁶^(G)That the generation to come might know them,
The children who would be born,
That they may arise and declare them to their children,
⁷That they may set their hope in God,
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments;
⁸And ^(H)may not be like their fathers,
^(I)A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation ^(J)that did not ^[c]set its heart aright,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.