Deuteronomy · Bible in Basic English
Deuteronomy 6 Bible in Basic English
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1 Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:
1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;
2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.
2 that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
3 So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
4 Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:
4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
5 And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;
6 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.
7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8 Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;
8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
9 Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.
9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;
10 It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,
11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;
11 and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;
12 Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
12 then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
13 Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.
13 You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;
14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,
15 For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.
15 for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.
16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;
17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,
18 You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
19 To send out from before you all those who are against you.
19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
20 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?
20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”
21 Then you will say to your son, We were servants under Pharaoh's yoke in Egypt; and the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand:
21 then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
22 And the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt, and against Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes:
22 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
23 And he took us out from that place, guiding us here to give us this land, as he said in his oath to our fathers.
23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
24 And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day.
24 Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.
25 And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.
25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
Cross references (24)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 12:1; Deuteronomy 4:45; Leviticus 27:34; Deuteronomy 5:31
- 2 Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 13:4; Exodus 20:20; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Psalm 128:1
- 3 Genesis 22:17; Exodus 3:8; Genesis 15:5; Genesis 28:14; Genesis 26:4
- 4 Mark 12:29–32; Isaiah 44:6; 1 Timothy 2:5; Isaiah 45:5–6; John 17:3
- 5 Mark 12:30; Matthew 22:37; Luke 10:27; Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 30:6
- 6 Colossians 3:16; Proverbs 7:3; Jeremiah 31:33; Deuteronomy 11:18; 2 Corinthians 3:3
- 7 Deuteronomy 11:19; Ephesians 6:4; Psalm 78:4–6; 1 Peter 3:15; Deuteronomy 4:9–10
- 8 Proverbs 6:21; Deuteronomy 11:18; Proverbs 3:3; Proverbs 7:3; Exodus 13:9
- 9 Deuteronomy 11:20; Isaiah 30:8; Isaiah 57:8; Habakkuk 2:2; Job 19:23–25
- 10 Joshua 24:13; Psalm 105:44; Nehemiah 9:25; Psalm 78:55; Genesis 26:3
- 11 Deuteronomy 7:12–18; Deuteronomy 8:10–20; Ezekiel 16:10–20; Jeremiah 2:31–32; Deuteronomy 32:15
- 13 Luke 4:8; Deuteronomy 10:20; Deuteronomy 13:4; Matthew 4:10; Leviticus 19:12
- 14 Jeremiah 25:6; Deuteronomy 13:7; 1 John 5:21; Deuteronomy 8:19; Deuteronomy 11:28
- 15 Deuteronomy 4:24; Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 11:17; Deuteronomy 7:4; Exodus 32:12
- 16 Exodus 17:7; Luke 4:12; Matthew 4:7; Psalm 95:8–9; Hebrews 3:8–9
- 17 Deuteronomy 11:22; Psalm 119:4; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 2 Peter 3:14; 2 Peter 1:5–10
- 18 Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 12:25; Romans 12:2; Deuteronomy 5:29; John 8:29
- 19 Exodus 23:28–30; Numbers 33:52–53; Judges 2:1–3; Judges 3:1–4
- 20 Exodus 13:14; Exodus 12:26; Joshua 4:21–24; Joshua 4:6–7; Deuteronomy 6:7
- 21 Ephesians 2:11–12; Romans 6:17–18; Deuteronomy 5:6; Deuteronomy 15:15; Exodus 20:2
- 22 Psalm 58:10–11; Deuteronomy 4:34; Psalm 91:8; Deuteronomy 7:19; Deuteronomy 4:3
- 23 Deuteronomy 6:18; Exodus 13:5; Deuteronomy 6:10; Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 1:35
- 24 Jeremiah 32:39; Psalm 41:2; Deuteronomy 10:12–13; Isaiah 3:10; Romans 10:5
- 25 Deuteronomy 24:13; Romans 10:3; James 2:10; Romans 10:5–6; Leviticus 18:5
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What the Fathers said
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… god at all); or shall it be (what is really the case) the Maker of heaven and earth, whom also the prophets proclaimed,--whom Christ, too, confesses as His Father,-- whom also the law announces, saying: "Hear, O Israel; The Lord thy God is one God?"
Can it at any time or place be an unrighteous thing for a man to love God with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his mind, and his neighbour as himself? Therefore those offences which be contrary to nature are everywhere and at all times to be held in detestation and punished; such were those of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Since they were continually forgetting God's benefits, He commanded His marvellous works to be inscribed on little tablets, and that these should be suspended from their hands (wherefore also He said, "They shall be immoveable in thine eyes"), which they called phylacteries; as many of our women now wear Gospels hung from their necks.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And again He says, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
The Lord therefore confuted him out of the law, when He said, "It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God;" pointing out by the word contained in the law that which is the duty of man, that he should not tempt God; and in regard to Himself, since He appeared in human form, [declaring] that He …