⁴ “^(A)Hear, Israel! The Lord is our God, the ^(B)Lord is one! ⁵ And ^(C)you shall love the Lord your God ^(D)with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. ^6 (E)These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. ⁷ And ^(F)you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. ^8 (G)You shall also tie them as a ^[a]sign to your ^[b]hand, and they shall be as ^[c]frontlets ^[d]on your forehead. ^9 (H)You shall also write them on the ^[e]doorposts of your house and on your gates.

^4 (A)Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but ^(B)bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

¹⁵ But if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served, which were beyond the Euphrates River, or ^(A)the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

¹⁰ All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and another generation rose up after them who ^(A)did not know the Lord, nor even the work which He had done for Israel.