Deuteronomy 6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:

² And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

³ And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.

⁴ And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house.

⁵ 0 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,

⁶ 1 Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant,

⁷ 2 And thou shalt have eaten and be full:

⁸ 3 Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his name.

⁹ 4 You shall not go after the strange gods of all the nations, that are round about you:

¹⁰ 5 Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of thee: lest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and take thee away from the face of the earth.

¹¹ 6 Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.

¹² 7 Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and ceremonies which he hath commanded thee.

¹³ 8 And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the goodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy fathers,

¹⁴ 9 That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath spoken.

¹⁵ 0 And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?

¹⁶ 1 Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

¹⁷ 2 And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,

¹⁸ 3 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and give us the land, concerning which he swore to our fathers.

¹⁹ 4 And the Lord commanded that we should do all these ordinances, and should fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the days of our life, as it is at this day.

²⁰ 5 And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

²¹ When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:

²² And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:

²³ Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:

²⁴ For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he may rather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kindled, and will quickly destroy thee.

²⁵ But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things.