1. NOW THIS is the instruction, the laws, and the precepts which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess it,
2. That you may [reverently] fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.
3. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be watchful to do them, that it may be well with you and that you may increase exceedingly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
4. Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord [the only Lord].
5. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being and with all your might.
6. And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be [first] in your [own] minds and hearts; [then]