Deuteronomy · Clementine Vulgate
Deuteronomy 6 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Hæc sunt præcepta, et cæremoniæ, atque judicia, quæ mandavit Dominus Deus vester ut docerem vos, et faciatis ea in terra, ad quam transgredimini possidendam:
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 ut timeas Dominum Deum tuum, et custodias omnia mandata et præcepta ejus, quæ ego præcipio tibi, et filiis, ac nepotibus tuis, cunctis diebus vitæ tuæ, ut prolongentur dies tui.
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 Audi, Israël, et observa ut facias quæ præcepit tibi Dominus, et bene sit tibi, et multipliceris amplius, sicut pollicitus est Dominus Deus patrum tuorum tibi terram lacte et melle manantem.
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 Audi, Israël: Dominus Deus noster, Dominus unus est.
4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
5 Diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex toto corde tuo, et ex tota anima tua, et ex tota fortitudine tua.
5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
6 Eruntque verba hæc, quæ ego præcipio tibi hodie, in corde tuo:
6 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
7 et narrabis ea filiis tuis, et meditaberis in eis sedens in domo tua, et ambulans in itinere, dormiens atque consurgens.
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 Et ligabis ea quasi signum in manu tua, eruntque et movebuntur inter oculos tuos,
8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
9 scribesque ea in limine, et ostiis domus tuæ.
9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
10 Cumque introduxerit te Dominus Deus tuus in terram, pro qua juravit patribus tuis Abraham, Isaac, et Jacob, et dederit tibi civitates magnas et optimas, quas non ædificasti,
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 domos plenas cunctarum opum, quas non exstruxisti, cisternas, quas non fodisti, vineta et oliveta, quæ non plantasti,
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 et comederis, et saturatus fueris:
12 then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
13 cave diligenter ne obliviscaris Domini, qui eduxit te de terra Ægypti, de domo servitutis. Dominum Deum tuum timebis, et illi soli servies, ac per nomen illius jurabis.
13 You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
14 Non ibitis post deos alienos cunctarum gentium, quæ in circuitu vestro sunt:
14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,
15 quoniam Deus æmulator Dominus Deus tuus in medio tui: nequando irascatur furor Domini Dei tui contra te, et auferat te de superficie terræ.
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 Non tentabis Dominum Deum tuum, sicut tentasti in loco tentationis.
16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
17 Custodi præcepta Domini Dei tui, ac testimonia et cæremonias, quas præcepit tibi:
17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
18 et fac quod placitum est et bonum in conspectu Domini, ut bene sit tibi: et ingressus possideas terram optimam, de qua juravit Dominus patribus tuis,
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 ut deleret omnes inimicos tuos coram te, sicut locutus est.
19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
20 Cumque interrogaverit te filius tuus cras, dicens: Quid sibi volunt testimonia hæc, et cæremoniæ, atque judicia, quæ præcepit Dominus Deus noster nobis?
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 dices ei: Servi eramus Pharaonis in Ægypto, et eduxit nos Dominus de Ægypto in manu forti:
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 fecitque signa atque prodigia magna et pessima in Ægypto contra Pharaonem, et omnem domum illius in conspectu nostro,
22 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
23 et eduxit nos inde, ut introductis daret terram, super qua juravit patribus nostris.
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 Præcepitque nobis Dominus ut faciamus omnia legitima hæc, et timeamus Dominum Deum nostrum, ut bene sit nobis cunctis diebus vitæ nostræ, sicut est hodie.
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 Eritque nostri misericors, si custodierimus et fecerimus omnia præcepta ejus coram Domino Deo nostro, sicut mandavit nobis.
25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
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Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (24)
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- 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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… 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 …