Dual Panel1These are the commandments, statutes, and laws which the LORD your God commanded me to teach you to observe in the land into which you are crossing to occupy it, a land flowing with milk and honey,
2so that you may fear the LORD your God and keep all his statutes and commandments which I am giving you, both you, your children, and your descendants all your days, that you may enjoy long life.
3If you listen, Israel, and are careful to observe them, you will prosper and increase greatly as the LORD the God of your forefathers promised you.
4Hear, Israel: the LORD is our God, the LORD our one God;
5and you must love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
6These commandments which I give you this day are to be remembered and taken to heart;
7repeat them to your children, and speak of them both indoors and out of doors, when you lie down and when you get up.
8Bind them as a sign on your hand and wear them as a pendant on your forehead;
9write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
10The LORD your God will bring you into the land which he swore to your forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give you, a land of large, fine towns which you did not build,
11houses full of good things which you did not provide, cisterns hewn from the rock but not by you, and vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant. When he brings you in and you have all you want to eat,
12see that you do not forget the LORD who brought you out of Egypt, out of that land of slavery.
13You are to fear the LORD your God; serve him alone, and take your oaths in his name.
14You must not go after other gods, gods of the nations around you;
15if you do, the anger of the LORD your God who is among you will be roused against you, and he will sweep you off the face of the earth, for the LORD your God is a jealous God.
16You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.
17You must diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the precepts and statutes which he gave you.
18You must do what is right and good in the eyes of the LORD, so that all may go well with you, and you may enter and occupy the good land which the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers;
19then, as the LORD promised, you will drive out all your enemies before you.
20When in time to come your son asks you, “What is the meaning of the precepts, statutes, and laws which the LORD our God gave you?”
21say to him, “We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with his strong hand.
22He harrowed the Egyptians including Pharaoh and all his court with mighty signs and portents, as we saw for ourselves.
23But he led us out from there to bring us into the land and give it to us as he had promised to our forefathers.
24The LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God; it will be for our own good at all times, and he will continue to preserve our lives.
25For us to be in the right we should keep all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us to do.”