And this is the Instruction—the laws and the rules—that your God יהוה has commanded [me] to impart to you, to be observed in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy,
so that you, your children, and your children’s children may revere your God יהוה and follow, as long as you live, all the divine laws and commandments that I enjoin upon you, to the end that you may long endure.
Obey, O Israel, willingly and faithfully, that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly [in] a land flowing with milk and honey, a land flowing with milk and honey According to Ibn Ezra, this phrase connects with the end of v. 1. as יהוה, the God of your ancestors, spoke to you.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ושמעת
816
ישראל
541
ושמרת
946
לעשות
806
אשר
501
ייטב
31
לך
50
ואשר
507
תרבון
658
מאד
45
כאשר
521
דבר
206
יהוה
26
אלהי
46
אבתיך
433
לך
50
ארץ
291
זבת
409
חלב
40
ודבשפ
392
Deuteronomy 6:4
Gematria: 1118
שמעישראליהוהאלהינויהוהאחד
Hear, O Israel! יהוה is our God, יהוה alone. .”
Translation Notes
*יהוה is our God, יהוה alone Cf. Rashbam and Ibn Ezra; see Zech. 14.9. — Others “The Lord our God, the Lord is one
Word-by-Word Analysis
שמע
410
ישראל
541
יהוה
26
אלהינו
102
יהוהאחד
39
Deuteronomy 6:5
Gematria: 1644
ואהבתאתיהוהאלהיךבכללבבךובכלנפשךובכלמאדך
You shall love your God יהוה with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואהבת
414
את
401
יהוה
26
אלהיך
66
בכללבבך
106
ובכלנפשך
508
ובכלמאדך
123
Deuteronomy 6:6
Gematria: 1282
והיוהדבריםהאלהאשראנכימצוךהיוםעללבבך
Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day.
When your God יהוה brings you into the land that was sworn to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to be assigned to you—great and flourishing cities that you did not build,
houses full of all good things that you did not fill, hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and you eat your fill,
Word-by-Word Analysis
ובתים
458
מלאים
121
כלטוב
67
אשר
501
לאמלאת
502
וברת
608
חצובים
156
אשר
501
לאחצבת
531
כרמים
310
וזיתים
473
אשר
501
לאנטעת
560
ואכלת
457
ושבעת
778
Deuteronomy 6:12
Gematria: 3802
השמרלךפןתשכחאתיהוהאשרהוציאךמארץמצריםמביתעבדים
take heed that you do not forget יהוה who freed you from the land of Egypt, the house of bondage.
Word-by-Word Analysis
השמר
545
לך
50
פןתשכח
858
אתיהוה
427
אשר
501
הוציאך
132
מארץ
331
מצרים
380
מבית
452
עבדים
126
Deuteronomy 6:13
Gematria: 3119
אתיהוהאלהיךתיראואתותעבדובשמותשבע
Revere only your God יהוה and worship [God] alone, and swear only by God’s name.
Word-by-Word Analysis
אתיהוה
427
אלהיך
66
תירא
611
ואתו
413
תעבד
476
ובשמו
354
תשבע
772
Deuteronomy 6:14
Gematria: 2403
לאתלכוןאחריאלהיםאחריםמאלהיהעמיםאשרסביבותיכם
Do not follow other gods, any gods of the peoples about you—
Do what is right and good in the sight of יהוה, that it may go well with you and that you may be able to possess the good land that your God יהוה promised on oath to your fathers,
Word-by-Word Analysis
ועשית
786
הישר
515
והטוב
28
בעיני
142
יהוה
26
למען
190
ייטב
31
לך
50
ובאת
409
וירשת
916
אתהארץ
697
הטבה
21
אשרנשבע
923
יהוה
26
לאבתיך
463
Deuteronomy 6:19
Gematria: 1626
להדףאתכלאיביךמפניךכאשרדבריהוהס
and that all your enemies may be driven out before you, as יהוה has spoken.
When, in time to come, your children ask you, “What mean the decrees, laws, and rules that our God יהוה has enjoined upon you?” you Septuagint and rabbinic quotations read “us.”