This is the mitzvah, the statutes and the laws that Adonoy, your God, commanded to teach you to fulfill in the land that you are crossing over there to inherit.

In order that you will fear [before] Adonoy, your God, to preserve all His statutes and commandments that I am commanding you—you and your son and your grandson—all the days of your life, and in order that you live long.

You will heed, Yisroel, and you will be careful to fulfill, so that you will benefit and so that you will multiply exceedingly, as Adonoy, God of your forefathers, spoke about you—a land flowing milk and honey.

Listen, Yisroel! Adonoy is our God, Adonoy is one.

You are to love Adonoy, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your possessions.

And these words that I command you today shall be upon your heart.

You are to teach them to your children and you are to discuss them, when you sit at home, and when you journey on the road, and when you go to sleep, and when you rise.

You are to tie them as a sign on your arm and they are to be totafos [tefillin] between your eyes.

You are to write them on the doorposts [and affix them to the lintels] of your house, and on your gateposts.

When Adonoy your God will have brought you to the land that He swore to your forefathers—to Avrohom, to Yitzchok, and to Yaakov—to give you: great and good cities that you did not build.

And houses full of all bounty that you did not fill, and hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive stands that you did not plant; and you will eat and be full.

Look out for yourself, lest you forget Adonoy, Who took you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

Fear Adonoy, your God, and serve [before] Him, and swear by His name.

Do not follow other gods [idols of the nations], from the gods [idols] of the peoples around you.

For a jealous Almighty is Adonoy, your God, [His Shechinah is] within you; lest there be aroused the anger of Adonoy, your God, against you and He destroy you from upon the surface of the land.

Do not test Adonoy, your God, as you tested at Massoh.

Carefully guard the commandments of Adonoy, your God, and His testimonies and His statutes that He commanded you.

Perform the upright and the good [correct] in Adonoy’s eyes, in order that you benefit and arrive in, and inherit the good land that Adonoy swore to your forefathers.

To smash [break] all your enemies before you, as Adonoy declared.

When your son asks you tomorrow, saying, ‘‘What are the testimonies and the statues and the laws that Adonoy, our God, commanded you?’’

You will tell your son, ‘‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and Adonoy took us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

And Adonoy set signs and wonders [that were] great and harmful, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon his entire household as we watched.

And us He took out of there, in order to bring us into, and to give us the land He swore to our forefathers.

Adonoy commanded us to perform all these statutes to [show that we] fear Adonoy, our God; to benefit us for all time, to keep us alive like this day.

And it will be to our credit [merit] if we are careful to fulfill this entire mitzvah before Adonoy, our God, as He commanded us.