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Deuteronomy 6:1
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The Greatest Commandment

1 “Now this is athe commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess,  
2 athat you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, band that your days may be prolonged.  
3 Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may amultiply greatly bas the Lord God of your fathers has promised you—c‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’  
4 a“Hear, O Israel:1 The Lord our God, the Lord is one!  
5 aYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, bwith all your soul, and with all your strength.  
6 “And athese words which I command you today shall be in your heart.  
7 aYou shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.  
8 aYou shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.  
9 aYou shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.  

Caution Against Disobedience

10 “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He1 swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities awhich you did not build,  
Verse Comparison: Deuteronomy 6:1

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American Standard Version
Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it;

Amplified® Bible
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,

Contemporary English Version
The LORD told me to give you these laws and teachings, so you can obey them in the land he is giving you. Soon you will cross the Jordan River and take that land.

Darby English Version
And these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye may do them in the land whereunto ye pass over to possess it,

Good News Bible
"These are all the laws that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you. Obey them in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.

King James Version
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

New American Standard Bible
"Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the LORD your God has commanded {me} to teach you, that you might do {them} in the land where you are going over to possess it,

New International Version
These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,

New King James Version
'Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess,

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Now this constitutes the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the LORD your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it,

Revised Standard Version
"Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances which the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it;

Young's Literal Translation
`And this `is' the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it,


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