| International Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1"Now these are the commands, decrees, and ordinances that the LORD commanded me to teach you. Obey them in the land you are entering to possess, | 1These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess, |
| 2so that you, your children, and your grandchildren may fear the LORD your God. Keep all his decrees and commandments that I'm giving you every day of your life, so you may live a long time. | 2so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged. |
| 3Listen, Israel! Be careful to obey, so that life may go well for you and that you may increase greatly. Just as the LORD God of your ancestors told you, you'll have a land flowing with milk and honey. | 3Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you. |
| 4"Listen, Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone. | 4Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. |
| 5You are to love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. | 5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. |
| 6Let these words that I'm commanding you today be always on your heart. | 6These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. |
| 7Teach them repeatedly to your children. Talk about them while sitting in your house or walking on the road, and as you lie down or get up. | 7And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. |
| 8Tie them as reminders on your forearm, bind them on your forehead, | 8Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. |
| 9and write them on the door frames of your house and on your gates." | 9Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates. |
| 10"When the LORD your God brings you to the land that he promised to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he will give you large and beautiful cities that you didn't build, | 10And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build, |
| 11houses filled with every good thing that you didn't supply, wells that you didn't dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you didn't plant. When you eat and are satisfied, | 11with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied, |
| 12be careful not to forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and slavery. | 12be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. |
| 13Fear the LORD your God, serve him, and make your oaths in his name. | 13Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name. |
| 14Do not follow other gods, from the gods of the peoples around you. | 14Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you. |
| 15For the LORD your God who is among you is a jealous God. He will turn his anger against you and destroy you from the surface of the land." | 15For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth. |
| 16"Don't test the LORD your God like you did in Massah. | 16Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah. |
| 17Be sure to observe the commands of the LORD your God, his testimonies and his decrees that he gave you. | 17You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you. |
| 18Do what is good and right in the LORD's sight so it may go well with you. Then you'll enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God promised to your ancestors, | 18Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers, |
| 19expelling all your enemies before you, as the LORD said." | 19driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said. |
| 20"When your son asks you in the future, 'What is the meaning of the instructions, decrees, and ordinances that the LORD our God commanded you?' | 20In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?” |
| 21tell him, 'We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with great power. | 21then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. |
| 22Before our very eyes, the LORD did great and terrible signs and wonders in Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to his entire household. | 22Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household. |
| 23But as for us, he brought us out from there to bring us into the land and give it to us, as he promised our ancestors. | 23But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers. |
| 24Then the LORD commanded us to observe all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God for our own good, so that he may keep us alive as we are today. | 24And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day. |
| 25It will be credited as righteousness for us, if we're careful to obey the entire Law in the presence of the LORD our God, as he commanded.'" | 25And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.” |
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