1 These are the commandments and rules and regulations that the Lord your God has ordered me to teach you to follow in the country that you’re going to enter and occupy. 2 This is so you and your children and grandchildren will show respect to the Lord your God throughout your lives by keeping all his rules and regulations that I give you, and so that you may have a long life.
3 Listen, people of Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may do well and have many descendants in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your forefathers, promised you. 4 Listen, people of Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is the only one.6:4. "Is the only one": or "is one." 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your mind and with all your being and with all your strength. 6 The commands I’m giving you today must stay in your minds. 7 You are to explain them carefully to your children and talk about them when you’re at home and when you’re traveling, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them on your hands as reminders and put them on your foreheads as well. 9 Write them on the doorposts of your homes and on your gates.