Revision as of 20:54, 7 July 2012

Halakhah Shammai version (as practised by the Carites of Halychyna).

Liturgical Year

001) E.12:2, Aviv (March) should be the first month of the Liturgical year.

Pesach

001) E.12:3, On the 10th of Aviv the head of each Abrahamic family must choose the Paschal śeh.

002) E.12:4, Abrahamic families too small to ’ā·ḵal a whole Paschal śeh must unite with their nearest Abrahamic neighbour for Passover.

003) E.12:4, The Paschal śeh must be shared fairly according to what each Abrahamite can ’ā·ḵal.

004) E.12:5, The Paschal śeh must be male, and the perfect śeh of the year; from hakkəḇāśîm or hā‘izzîm.

005) E.12:6, Abrahamites must observe the Passover śeh from the 10th of Aviv until Passover (14th Aviv).

006) E.12:6 The Abrahamic Synagogue (society)'s special Order shall šāḥaṭ the Passover śeh in the twilight of the 14th of Aviv.

007) E.12:7, The Abrahamites must daub the blood of the Paschal śeh on the posts and lintels of their doors of the houses where they ’ā·ḵal it.

008) E.12:8, After šāḥaṭ of The Paschal śeh it must be barbecued and eaten with Marorim and Matzot.

009) E.12:9, The Paschal śeh must not be eaten raw.

010) E.12:9, The Paschal śeh must not be eaten boiled.

011) E.12:9, The Paschal śeh has to be barbecued whole, head, feet and entrails.

012) E.12:10 There shall not be any remnants of the Paschal śeh in the morning after Passover.

013) E.12:10 If there are leftovers from the Paschal śeh on Passover morning (14th Aviv) it must be burned.

014) E.12:11 Abrahamites must eat the Paschal śeh quickly wearing a belt, sandals and a staff in hand.

015) E.12:14, Abrahamites has to honor the memory of Passover for all generations, an ordinance for ever to celebrate it.

016) N.28:16-17, in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month is the LORD's passover, and on the fifteenth day of this month there is to be Ecclesia; for seven days in total you shall eat Matzot.

Matzot

017) E.12:15, seven days a year, believers should eat unleavened bread.

018) E.12:18, From the eve of the fourteenth day of the first month the faithful must eat unleavened bread, until the eve of the twenty-first day of the month.

019) E.12:15, on the first day of Matzot believers must remove all śə’ōr from their homes.

020) E.12: 19, seven days (a year) there must not be any śə’ōr in their houses.

021) E.12:15 E.12:19 For whosoever eateth Chametz from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from society (the synagogue), whether it be a stranger, or one born in the land.

022) E.12:16, the first day of Unleavened Bread (14th Aviv) believers must hold Ecclesia, no work should be done; except preparing food for everyone to eat, that much you may do.

023) E.12:16, the seventh day of Unleavened Bread (20th Aviv) believers must hold Ecclesia, no work should be done; except preparing food for everyone to eat, that much you may do.

024) Leviticus 23:6, The fifteenth day of Aviv is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD.

025) E.12:17, Abrahamites have to honour the memory of Matzot for all generations, an ordinance for ever to celebrate it.

026) Deuteronomy 16:8, from 15th to 20th continue to eat Matzot and on the 21st hold an Ecclesia of the Lord God, do no work.

Torah

Moses said: D.1:13 - 18, Choose wise and discerning and experienced men from your tribes, and Moses will appoint them as your heads......the heads of your tribes. Wise and experienced men, to be appointed as heads over you, leaders of thousands and of hundreds, of fifties and of tens, and officers for your tribes. Your judges are charged to "hear the cases between your fellow countrymen, and judge righteously between a man and his fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him. 17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to" Moses' seat to be heard. Moses "commanded you at that time all the things that you should do" as follows:

Exodus 20 to 24

1Then God spoke all these words, saying: 2“I AM IS HE WHO IS YOUR GOD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3“YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.

4“YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELF ANY IDOL of any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 5“YOU SHALL NOT WORSHIP THEM OR SERVE THEM; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

7“YOU SHALL NOT TAKE THE NAME OF HE WHO IS YOUR GOD IN VAIN, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

8“REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY. 9“Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. 11“For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

12“HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

13“YOU SHALL NOT MURDER.

14“YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.

15“YOU SHALL NOT STEAL.

16“YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS against your neighbor.

17“YOU SHALL NOT COVET your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or ANYTHING THAT BELONGS TO YOUR NEIGHBOR.”

Altar

18All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance. 19Then they said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die.” 20Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may remain with you, so that you may not sin.” 21But the people stood at a distance, while Moses approached the thick cloud where God was. 22Then the LORD said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven. 23‘YOU SHALL NOT MAKE OTHER GODS BESIDES ME; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves.

24‘YOU SHALL MAKE AN ALTAR OF EARTH FOR ME AND YOU SHALL SACRIFICE ON IT

your burnt offerings

and your peace offerings,

your sheep and your oxen;

IN EVERY PLACE WHERE I CAUSE MY NAME TO BE REMEMBERED, I will come to you and bless you.

25‘If you make an altar of stone for Me, YOU SHALL NOT BUILD IT OF CUT STONES, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it.

26‘And YOU SHALL NOT GO UP BY STEPS TO MY ALTAR, thus that your nakedness will not be exposed on it.’

Deacons

1“Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them: 2“If you commission a Hebrew minister, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he may leave as ḥāpəšî for nothing. 3“If he comes alone, he shall leave alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall leave with him. 4“If the society gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall remain with the society, and he shall leave alone. 5“But if the minister plainly says, ‘I love the society, my wife and my children; I will not leave as ḥāpəšî,’ 6then the society shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And the society shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall minister to the world (alongside you).

7“If a person sells his daughter to the synagogue as an orphan be a deaconess, she must not leave in the same process as the Hebrews.

8“If a she is displeasing in the eyes of her lord (that she is quite contrary) engage her and pay her her dowry. Don't get rid of her to a pagan people because you failed to bring her up properly. 9“If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the rights of daughters. 10“If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. 11“If he will not satisfy her these three things, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

Personal Injuries

12“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death. 13“But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee. 14“If, however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him craftily, you are to take him even from My altar, that he may die.

15“He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

16“He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.

17“He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

18“If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed, 19if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of time, and shall take care of him until he is completely healed.

20“If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished. 21“If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property.

22“If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide. 23“But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, 24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

26“If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye. 27“And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.

28“If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished. 29“If, however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death. 30“If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him. 31“Whether it gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule. 32“If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

33“If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 34the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.

35“If one man’s ox hurts another’s so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally; and also they shall divide the dead ox. 36“Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.

Exodus 25 to 31

Missionism

001) D.1:7-8, go to the mountain of the Amorites and to all its neighbours, in the plain, up the hill, the vale, and in the south, and by the sea, the land of Canaan, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates; go in and possess the land.

002) D.1:19-21, we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20“I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which the LORD our God is about to give us. 21‘See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you; go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’

003) D.1:29-31, Do not be shocked, nor fear them. 30‘The LORD your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 31and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked until you came to this place.’

004) D.2:5, Do not start a war with Esau, for I will not give you of their land even a foot, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau in possession;

005) D.2:6, You are to pay Esau in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.

006) D.2:9, do not enter into enmity with Moab and do no battle with them: for I will not give thee their land for a possession, because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession; You shall pass them by (D.2:18).

007) D.2:13, Arise, and go over the Zered brook.

008) D.2:19, do not harass them or provoke the Ammonites to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot

009) D.2:24 & 31, Set out now and cross the Arnon Gorge. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his country. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle... Now begin to conquer and possess his land.

010) D.3:2 Do not fear Og king of Bashan... you will do to Og king of Bashan as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.

011) D.3:18-20, 18“Then I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it; all you valiant men shall cross over armed before your brothers, the sons of Israel. 19‘But your wives and your little ones and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in your cities which I have given you, 20until the LORD gives rest to your fellow countrymen as to you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God will give them beyond the Jordan. Then you may return every man to his possession which I have given you.’

012) D. 3:28, charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him, for he shall go across at the head of this people, and he will give them as an inheritance the land which you will see.

The Laws of Moses

D.4:1, therefore, O Israel, HEAR the statutes and judgments which I teach you, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

D.4:2, DO NOT ADD unto the word which I command you,

NOR take away from it,

KEEP the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3Your eyes have seen what the LORD has done in the case of Baal-peor, for all the men who followed Baal-peor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you. 4“But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive today, every one of you.

D.4:5, “See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should DO THUS in the land where you are entering to possess it.

D.4:6-8, so keep and DO them, because this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of people, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7“For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as is the LORD our God whenever we call on Him? 8“Or what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?

D.4:9 Only TAKE HEED, and KEEP THY SOUL diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life:

but TEACH THEM thy sons, and thy sons' sons,

D.4:10“REMEMBER the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when the LORD said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words so they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’ 11“You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the very heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud and thick gloom. 12“Then the LORD spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form—only a voice. 13“So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

14“The LORD commanded me at that time to TEACH you statutes and judgments, that you might

PERFORM them in the land where you are going over to possess it.

15“So WATCH YOURSELVES CAREFULLY, since you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, 16so THAT YOU DO NOT ACT CORRUPTLY AND MAKE ANY IDOL for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, 18the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.

19“And BEWARE NOT TO LIFT UP YOUR EYES to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, AND BE DRAWN AWAY and worship them and serve them, those which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 20“But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as today.

21“Now the LORD was angry with me on your account, and swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. 22“For I will die in this land, I shall not cross the Jordan, but you shall cross and take possession of this good land. 23“So WATCH YOURSELVES THAT YOU DO NOT FORGET THE COVENANT of the LORD your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the LORD your God has commanded you. 24“For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

25“WHEN YOU become the father of children and children’s children and have remained long in the land, and ACT CORRUPTLY, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your God so as to provoke Him to anger, 26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that YOU WILL SURELY PERISH quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it, BUT WILL BE UTTERLY DESTROYED. 27“The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD drives you. 28“There you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

29“But from there you will SEEK THE LORD YOUR God, AND YOU WILL FIND HIM IF you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. 30“When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice. 31“For the LORD your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.

32“Indeed, INQUIRE now CONCERNING the former days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth,

and INQUIRE FROM ONE END OF THE HEAVENS TO THE OTHER: "Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it? 33 Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived? 34 Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35“To you it was shown that you might know that the LORD, He is God; there is no other besides Him. 36“Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. 37“Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power, 38driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.

39“KNOW THEREFORE TODAY, AND TAKE IT TO YOUR HEART, that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

40“So you shall KEEP HIS STATUTES AND HIS COMMANDMENTS which I am giving you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time.”

41Then Moses SET APART THREE CITIES ACROSS THE JORDAN TO THE EAST, 42that a manslayer might flee there, who unintentionally slew his neighbor without having enmity toward him in time past; and by fleeing to one of these cities he might live: 43Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

44Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel; 45these are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out from Egypt, 46across the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel defeated when they came out from Egypt. 47They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan to the east, 48from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, even as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon), 49with all the Arabah across the Jordan to the east, even as far as the sea of the Arabah, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah. D.5:1, Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: “HEAR, O ISRAEL, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn them and observe them carefully. 2“The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3“The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with all those of us alive here today. 4“The LORD spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire, 5while I was standing between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said,

6‘I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 7‘You shall have no other gods before Me.

8‘You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 9‘You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 10but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

11‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

12‘Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. 13‘Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15‘You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day.

16‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the LORD your God gives you.

17‘You shall not murder.

18‘You shall not commit adultery.

19‘You shall not steal.

20‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

21‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’

22“These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. 23“And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders. 24“You said, ‘Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he lives. 25‘Now then why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer, then we will die. 26‘For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27‘Go near and hear all that the LORD our God says; then speak to us all that the LORD our God speaks to you, and we will hear and do it.’ 28“The LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. 29‘Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, that it may be well with them and with their sons forever! 30‘Go, say to them, “Return to your tents.” 31‘But as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I give them to possess.’ 32“So YOU SHALL OBSERVE TO DO JUST AS THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS COMMANDED YOU;

YOU SHALL NOT TURN ASIDE TO THE RIGHT OR TO THE LEFT.

33“YOU SHALL WALK IN ALL THE WAY WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS COMMANDED YOU, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.

D.6:1, “Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the LORD your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it, 2so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. 3“O ISRAEL, YOU SHOULD LISTEN AND BE CAREFUL TO DO IT, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

4“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!

5“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

6“These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.

7“You shall teach them diligently to your sons

and shall talk of them when you sit in your house

and when you walk by the way

and when you lie down

and when you rise up.

8“You shall bind them as a sign on your hand

and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.

9“You shall write them on the doorposts of your house

and on your gates.

10“Then it shall come about when the LORD your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build, 11and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are satisfied, 12then WATCH YOURSELF, THAT YOU DO NOT FORGET THE LORD WHO BROUGHT YOU FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT, OUT OF THE HOUSE OF SLAVERY.

13“You shall fear only the LORD your God;

and you shall worship Him

and swear by His name.

14“You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you, 15for the LORD your God in the midst of 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“You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.

17“You should diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you.

18“You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to give your fathers, 19by driving out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

20“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the LORD our God commanded you?’ 21then you shall say to your son, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand. 22‘Moreover, the LORD showed great and distressing signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household; 23He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.’ 24“So the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God for our good always and for our survival, as it is today. 25“It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observe all this commandment before the LORD our God, just as He commanded us.