Love the Lord Your God
1These 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, 2so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. 3Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.
4Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.6:4 Or The Lord our God is one Lord; or The Lord is our God, the Lord is one; or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone 5Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7Impress them on your children. Talk about 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 symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
10When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, 12be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
13Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. 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 and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. 16Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah. 17Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. 18Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors, 19thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the Lord said.
20In the future, when your son asks you, “What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the Lord our God has commanded you?” 21tell him: “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22Before our eyes the Lord sent signs and wonders—great and terrible—on Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. 23But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land he promised on oath to our ancestors. 24The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. 25And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.”
Mpende Bwana Mungu Wako
1Haya ndiyo maagizo, amri na sheria ambazo Bwana Mungu wenu aliniagiza niwafundishe ninyi ili mpate kuyashika katika nchi ambayo ninyi mnavuka Yordani kuimiliki, 26:2 Kut 20:20; 1Sam 12:24; Kum 4:9; Mwa 26:5; Kut 20:12ili kwamba ninyi, watoto wenu na watoto wao baada yao wamche Bwana Mungu wenu siku zote kwa kushika amri na maagizo yake yote ninayowapa, ili mweze kuyafurahia maisha marefu. 36:3 Mwa 15:5; Kum 5:33; 32:13-14; Kut 3:8; 13:5; 19:5Sikia, ee Israeli, nawe uwe mwangalifu kutii ili upate kufanikiwa na kuongezeka sana katika nchi itiririkayo maziwa na asali, kama Bwana, Mungu wa baba zenu, alivyowaahidi ninyi.
46:4 Zek 14:9; Kum 4:35-39; Neh 9:6; Za 86:10; Isa 44:6; Mk 12:29; Yn 10:30; 1Kor 8:4; Efe 4:6; Yak 2:19Sikia, ee Israeli: Bwana Mungu wako, Bwana ni mmoja. 56:5 Kum 11:1, 22; Mt 22:37; Mk 12:30; Lk 10:27; 1Sam 12:24; Kum 4:29; 10:12; Yos 22:5Mpende Bwana Mungu wako kwa moyo wako wote, na kwa roho yako yote, na kwa nguvu zako zote. 66:6 Kum 11:18; 30:14; 32:46; Za 26:2; 37:31; 40:8; 119:11; Mit 3:3; Isa 51:7; Yer 17:1; 31:33; Eze 40:4Amri hizi ninazokupa leo zitakuwa katika moyo wako. 76:7 Kum 4:9; 11:19; Mit 22:6; Efe 6:4Wafundishe watoto wako kwa bidii. Nena kuhusu amri hizi uketipo nyumbani na wakati utembeapo njiani, ulalapo na uamkapo. 86:8 Kut 13:9; Mt 23:5; Mit 3:3; 7:3; 6:21Zifunge kama alama juu ya mkono wako, na uzifunge juu ya paji la uso wako. 96:9 Kum 11:20; Isa 50:8; 57:8Ziandike kwenye miimo ya milango ya nyumba yako na juu ya malango yako.
106:10 Mwa 11:4; Kum 12:29; 19:1; Yos 24:13Wakati Bwana Mungu wako atakapokuleta katika nchi aliyowaapia baba zako, Abrahamu, Isaki na Yakobo, kukupa wewe, nchi kubwa, ina miji inayopendeza ambayo hukuijenga, 116:11 Yer 22:13; Law 26:5; Kum 8:10; 11:29; 31:20nyumba zilizojaa vitu vizuri vya aina nyingi ambavyo hukuvijaza, visima ambavyo hukuchimba, na mashamba ya mizabibu na mizeituni ambayo hukupanda wewe, basi, utakapokula na kushiba, 126:12 Kum 4:9, 23; 2Fal 17:38; Za 44:17; 78:7; 103:2jihadhari usije ukamwacha Bwana, aliyekutoa katika nchi ya Misri, kutoka nchi ya utumwa.
136:13 Za 33:8; 34:9; Kum 13:4; 1Sam 7:3; Yer 44:10; Mt 4:10; Lk 4:4, 8; 1Sam 20:3; Kut 20:7; Mt 5:33Utamcha Bwana Mungu wako, na umtumikie yeye peke yake na kuapa kwa jina lake. 14Usifuate miungu mingine, miungu ya mataifa yanayokuzunguka; 156:15 Kum 4:24kwa kuwa Bwana Mungu wako, ambaye yuko katikati yako, ni Mungu mwenye wivu na hasira yake itawaka dhidi yako, naye atakuangamiza kutoka uso wa nchi. 166:16 Kut 17:2; Mt 4:7; Lk 4:12Usimjaribu Bwana Mungu wako kama ulivyofanya huko Masa. 176:17 Law 26:3; Kum 11:22; Za 119:4-5, 56, 100, 134, 168Utayashika maagizo ya Bwana Mungu wako kwa bidii, na masharti na amri alizokupa. 186:18 2Fal 18:6; Isa 36:7; 38:3; Kum 4:40Fanya lililo haki na jema mbele za Bwana, ili upate kufanikiwa, uweze kuingia na kuimiliki nchi nzuri ambayo Bwana aliahidi kwa kiapo kwa baba zako, 196:19 Kut 23:27; Yos 21:44; Za 78:53; 107:2; 136:24kuwafukuza kwa nguvu adui zako mbele yako kama Bwana alivyosema.
206:20 Kut 10:2; 13:14Siku zijazo, mtoto wako atakapokuuliza, “Ni nini maana ya masharti haya, amri na sheria hizi ambazo Bwana Mungu wako alikuagiza wewe?” 216:21 Kum 4:34Mwambie: “Tulikuwa watumwa wa Farao huko Misri, lakini Bwana alitutoa sisi kutoka Misri kwa mkono wenye nguvu. 22Bwana akapeleka mbele yetu ishara za miujiza na maajabu makubwa na ya kutisha mno juu ya Misri na Farao pamoja na nyumba yake yote. 23Lakini Mungu akatutoa huko, akatuleta na kutupa nchi hii ambayo aliwaahidi baba zetu kwa kiapo. 246:24 Kum 10:12; 30:6; Za 86:11; Yer 32:39; Za 27:12; 41:2; Rum 10:5Bwana akatuagiza tutii amri hizi zote na kumcha Bwana Mungu wetu, ili tupate kustawi na kuendelea kuwa hai kama ilivyo leo. 256:25 Za 103:18; 119:34, 55; Kum 24:13; Rum 9:31Kama tukizitii kwa bidii amri hizi zote mbele za Bwana Mungu wetu, kama alivyotuamuru sisi, hiyo itakuwa haki yetu.”
