To coincide with Come Follow Me 2022 Old Testament May 16-22 Deuteronomy 6–8; 15; 18; 29–30; 34
The Shema Prayer
4 Hear, O
Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your strength. 6 These
commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress 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. 8 Tie
them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses
and on your gates.
13 So if
you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to
love the Lord your
God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul— 14 then
I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring
rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. 15 I will provide grass in the fields
for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
16 Be
careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow
down to them. 17 Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the
heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and
you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you. 18 Fix
these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands
and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach
them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when
you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your
houses and on your gates, 21 so
that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land
the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the
heavens are above the earth.
37 The Lord said
to Moses, 38 “Speak
to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Throughout the generations to come you
are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on
each tassel. 39 You will
have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of
the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by
chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes. 40 Then you will remember to obey all my
commands and will be consecrated to your God. 41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I
am the Lord your God.’”
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