1 Dit is dan die gebod, die insettinge en die verordeninge wat die HERE julle God beveel het om julle te leer, sodat julle dit kan doen in die land waarheen julle oortrek om dit in besit te neem;
2 dat jy die HERE jou God kan vrees om al sy insettinge en sy gebooie wat ek jou beveel, te hou -- jy en jou kind en jou kindskind al die dae van jou lewe; en dat jou dae verleng kan word.
3 Hoor dan, Israel, en onderhou dit sorgvuldig, dat dit met jou goed kan gaan en dat julle baie kan vermenigvuldig soos die HERE die God van jou vaders jou beloof het, 'n land wat oorloop van melk en heuning.
4 Hoor, Israel, die HERE onse God is 'n enige HERE.
5 Daarom moet jy die HERE jou God liefhê met jou hele hart en met jou hele siel en met al jou krag.
6 En hierdie woorde wat ek jou vandag beveel, moet in jou hart wees;
7 en jy moet dit jou kinders inskerp en daaroor spreek as jy in jou huis sit en as jy op pad is en as jy gaan lê en as jy opstaan.
8 Ook moet jy dit as 'n teken bind op jou hand, en dit moet as 'n voorhoofsband tussen jou oë wees.
9 En jy moet dit op die deurposte van jou huis en op jou poorte skrywe.
10 En as die HERE jou God jou inbring in die land wat Hy aan jou vaders, Abraham, Isak en Jakob, met 'n eed beloof het om jou te gee -- groot en mooi stede wat jy nie gebou het nie,
11 en huise vol van allerhande goed wat jy nie gevul het nie, en uitgekapte reënbakke wat jy nie uitgekap, wingerde en olyfbome wat jy nie geplant het nie -- en jy eet en versadig word,
12 neem jou dan in ag dat jy die HERE nie vergeet wat jou uit Egipteland, uit die slawehuis, uitgelei het nie.
13 Jy moet die HERE jou God vrees en Hom dien; en by sy Naam moet jy sweer.
14 Julle mag nie agter ander gode aan loop uit die gode van die volke wat rondom julle is nie --
15 want die HERE jou God is 'n jaloerse God by jou -- sodat die toorn van die HERE jou God nie teen jou ontvlam en Hy jou van die aarde verdelg nie.
16 Julle mag die HERE julle God nie versoek soos julle Hom by Massa versoek het nie.
17 Julle moet die gebooie van die HERE julle God en sy getuienisse en sy insettinge wat Hy jou beveel het, ywerig onderhou.
18 En jy moet doen wat reg en goed is in die oë van die HERE, dat dit met jou goed kan gaan en jy kan inkom en in besit neem die goeie land wat die HERE aan jou vaders met 'n eed beloof het,
19 terwyl Hy al jou vyande voor jou uit verjaag soos die HERE gespreek het.
20 As jou seun jou later vra en sê: Wat beteken die getuienisse en die insettinge en die verordeninge wat die HERE onse God julle beveel het?
21 dan moet jy aan jou seun sê: Ons was slawe van Farao in Egipte; maar die HERE het ons deur 'n sterke hand uit Egipte uitgelei.
22 En die HERE het groot en onheilbrengende tekens en wonders voor ons oë in Egipte aan Farao en sy hele huis gedoen.
23 En Hy het ons daarvandaan uitgelei om ons in te bring, sodat Hy ons die land kan gee wat Hy aan ons vaders met 'n eed beloof het.
24 En die HERE het ons beveel om al hierdie insettinge te volbring, om die Here onse God te vrees, dat dit met ons altyd goed mag gaan, om ons in die lewe te hou soos dit vandag is.
25 En dit sal geregtigheid vir ons wees as ons sorgvuldig al hierdie gebooie hou voor die aangesig van die HERE onse God soos Hy ons beveel het.
1 Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:
2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.
3 So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
4 Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:
5 And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;
7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.
8 Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;
9 Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.
10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;
11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;
12 Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
13 Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.
14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;
15 For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.
16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.
17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;
18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,
19 To send out from before you all those who are against you.
20 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?
21 Then you will say to your son, We were servants under Pharaoh's yoke in Egypt; and the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand:
22 And the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt, and against Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes:
23 And he took us out from that place, guiding us here to give us this land, as he said in his oath to our fathers.
24 And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day.
25 And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.