Deuteronomy
Chapter 6
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1This is the command, the Rules that are meant to last., and the rules that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God commanded to teach you, to do in the land you are crossing into to take possession of it,
2so that you fear God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, to keep all his Rules that are meant to last. and his commands that I am commanding you, you and your son and your son’s son, all the days of your life, and so that your days are long.
3You shall listen, Israel, and keep them, to do them, so that it goes well for you, and so that you become very many, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the God of your fathers, spoke to you, a land oozing milk and honey.
4Listen, Israel. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. is our God. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. is one.
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The ayin in “listen” and the dalet in “one” are written large in this copy. The words are printed. The size is not a different reading.
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YHWH Elohenu is Yahweh our God. The second YHWH is the name again. Echado is one.
5You shall love God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God with all your heart, with all your life, and with all your might.
6These words that I am commanding you today shall be on your heart.
7You shall repeat them to your children, and you shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
8You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be bands between your eyes.
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Totafot are bands worn between the eyes. The line does not describe their shape.
9You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
10When God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and good cities that you did not build,
11and houses full of every good thing that you did not fill, and cisterns hewn that you did not hew, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant, and you eat and are full,
12then keep yourself, so that you do not forget God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a slave house.
13God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God you shall fear, and him you shall serve, and by his name you shall swear.
14You shall not walk after other gods, from the gods of the peoples who are around you,
15for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God in your midst is a jealous God, or the anger of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the soil.
16You shall not test God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, as you tested him at Massah.
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Massah is the place name from Exodus 17, “testing.” The name is kept.
17You shall keep, keep the commands of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and his testimonies, and his Rules that are meant to last. that he commanded you.
18You shall do what is right and good in the eyes of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., so that it goes well for you, and you go in and take possession of the good land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. swore to your fathers,
19to push out all your enemies from before you, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has spoken.
20When your son asks you later, saying, What are the testimonies, the Rules that are meant to last., and the rules that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God commanded you?
21you shall say to your son, We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.
22God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. gave great and grievous signs and wonders against Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes.
23He brought us out from there, in order to bring us in, to give us the land that he swore to our fathers.
24God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded us to do all these Rules that are meant to last., to fear God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God, for our good, all the days, to keep us alive, as it is this day.
25It will be rightness for us if we keep to do this whole command before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God, as he commanded us.
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Tzedaqah is rightness, being in the right. It is not a later courtroom term added to the line.