³ Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, ^(A)as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴ “Hear, O Israel: ^(B)The Lord our God, the Lord is one.^{[a] 5} You ^(C)shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ⁶ And ^(D)these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. ^7 (E)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ^8 (F)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ^9 (G)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

¹⁰ “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities ^(H)that you did not build, ¹¹ and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, ^12 (I)then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. ¹³ It is ^(J)the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and ^(K)by his name you shall swear. ¹⁴ You shall not ^(L)go after other gods, ^(M)the gods of the peoples who are around you— ¹⁵ for ^(N)the Lord your God in your midst ^(O)is a jealous God—^(P)lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

^18 (A)“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and ^(B)you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ¹⁹ You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ^20 (C)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, ^21 (D)that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, ^(E)as long as the heavens are above the earth. ²² For if ^(F)you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and ^(G)holding fast to him, ²³ then the Lord ^(H)will drive out all these nations before you, and you will ^(I)dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. ^24 (J)Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be ^(K)from the wilderness to^[a] the Lebanon, and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. ^25 (L)No one shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay ^(M)the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, ^(N)as he promised you.