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Deuteronômio 6

BLIVRE · Chapter 6/34

1Estes, pois são os mandamentos, estatutos, e regulamentos que o SENHOR vosso Deus mandou que vos ensinasse, para que os ponhais por obra na terra à qual passais vós para possuí-la:

2Para que temas ao SENHOR teu Deus, guardando todos os seus estatutos e seus mandamentos que eu te mando, tu, e teu filho, e o filho de teu filho, todos os dias de tua vida, e que teus dias sejam prolongados.

3Ouve, pois, ó Israel, e cuida de praticá-los, para que te vá bem, e sejais multiplicados, como te disse o SENHOR o Deus de teus pais, na terra que destila leite e mel.

4Ouve, Israel: o SENHOR nosso Deus, o SENHOR um é:

5E Amarás ao SENHOR teu Deus de todo teu coração, e de toda tua alma, e com todo tua poder.

6E estas palavras que eu te mando hoje, estarão sobre teu coração:

7E as repetirás a teus filhos, e falarás delas estando em tua casa, e andando pelo caminho, e ao deitar-te, e quando te levantes:

8E hás de atá-las por sinal em tua mão, e estarão por frontais entre teus olhos:

9E as escreverás nos umbrais de tua casa, e em tuas entradas.

10E será, quando o SENHOR teu Deus te houver introduzido na terra que jurou a teus pais Abraão, Isaque, e Jacó, que te daria; em cidades grandes e boas que tu não edificaste,

11E casas cheias de todo ainda que tu não encheste, e cisternas cavadas, que tu não cavaste, vinhas e olivais que não plantaste: logo que comeres e te fartares,

12Guarda-te que não te esqueças do SENHOR, que te tirou da terra do Egito, de casa de servos.

13Ao SENHOR teu Deus temerás, e a ele servirás, e por seu nome jurarás.

14Não andareis após deuses alheios, dos deuses dos povos que estão em vossos entornos:

15Porque o Deus zeloso, o SENHOR teu Deus, em meio de ti está; para que não se inflame o furor do SENHOR teu Deus contra ti, e te destrua de sobre a face da terra.

16Não tentareis ao SENHOR vosso Deus, como o tentastes em Massá.

17Guardai cuidadosamente os mandamentos do SENHOR vosso Deus, e seus testemunhos, e seus estatutos, que te mandou.

18E farás o correto e bom aos olhos do SENHOR, para que te vá bem, e entres e possuas a boa terra que o SENHOR jurou a teus pais;

19Para que ele expulse a todos os seus inimigos de diante de ti, como o SENHOR disse.

20Quando amanhã te perguntar teu filho, dizendo: Que significam os testemunhos, e estatutos, e regulamentos, que o SENHOR nosso Deus vos mandou?

21Então dirás a teu filho: Nós éramos servos de Faraó no Egito, e o SENHOR tirou do Egito com mão forte;

22E deu o SENHOR sinais e milagres grandes e nocivos no Egito, sobre Faraó e sobre toda sua casa, diante de nossos olhos;

23E tirou-nos dali, para trazer-nos e dar-nos a terra que jurou a nossos pais;

24E mandou-nos o SENHOR que executássemos todos estes estatutos, e que temamos ao SENHOR nosso Deus, para que nos vá bem todos os dias, e para que nos dê vida, como hoje.

25E teremos justiça quando cuidarmos de pôr por obra todos estes mandamentos diante do SENHOR nosso Deus, como ele nos mandou.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

Moses presents the Shema ('Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord'), the central command to love God with all one's heart, soul, and strength, and instructs that these words be diligently taught to one's children at every moment of daily life.

Explanation

The Shema became, historically, the most fundamental declaration of faith in Judaism, recited daily to this day, summing up all of Israel's theology in one simple statement: there is one God, and he demands total, not partial, devotion. The instruction to teach these words 'when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up' shows that biblical faith was never meant to be an isolated compartment of formal religious life, but something woven into every moment of everyday family life. Jesus quotes this commandment as the greatest of all (Mark 12:29-30), confirming its permanent centrality. The application for today: passing on faith to the next generation happens more through natural, everyday conversations than through formal moments of religious instruction alone.

Fun facts

  • The Shema is traditionally the last sentence a practicing Jew seeks to utter before death, and the first prayer a Jewish child learns, showing its unique place as a spiritual anchor from the beginning to the end of life.
  • The instructions to bind the words 'upon thine hand' and as 'frontlets between thine eyes' (v. 8) gave rise to the tefillin (phylacteries), small leather boxes containing passages from the Torah, still worn by Orthodox Jews during morning prayer.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Deuteronômio 6:1It introduces the block of laws that follows: commandments, statutes, and judgments the people were to practice as soon as they entered the promised land.
  2. Deuteronômio 6:2The stated goal of the law is the fear of God across generations — themselves, their children, their grandchildren — securing a long life.
  3. Deuteronômio 6:3Moses asks for full attention: keeping these laws is the way to prosper and grow in the land described as “the land that floweth with milk and honey.”
  4. Deuteronômio 6:4This is the Shema, the most repeated statement of the Jewish faith: it affirms that there is one LORD, not several regional gods as the neighboring peoples believed, and it calls for total love — heart, soul, and strength — as the response to that oneness.
  5. Deuteronômio 6:5This is the second half of the Shema: after affirming that there is one God, comes the command to love Him with everything — heart, soul, and strength, without reservation.
  6. Deuteronômio 6:6Right after the Shema comes the core requirement: these words are not meant to stay only in the head, they must be engraved on the heart.
  7. Deuteronômio 6:7The instruction to bind the words of the law on the hand and use them as a sign between the eyes gave rise, centuries later, to the Jewish custom of tefillin, small boxes with passages of the law tied to the arm and the forehead during prayer. In the original text it is more likely an image of constant remembrance than a literal command.
  8. Deuteronômio 6:8The instruction to bind the words as a sign on the hand and on the forehead gave rise, centuries later, to the Jewish custom of tefillin worn in prayer.
  9. Deuteronômio 6:9It also commands writing the law on the doorposts and gates of the house — a physical way of keeping the memory always visible in daily life.
  10. Deuteronômio 6:10It looks ahead to arriving in a land already made ready: great, good cities the people would not need to build from scratch.
  11. Deuteronômio 6:11It completes the list of ready-made blessings: houses full of goods, wells already dug, vineyards and olive groves already planted — all inherited, not earned by their own effort.
  12. Deuteronômio 6:12Precisely because everything comes ready-made, the warning follows: be careful not to forget that it was God who brought the people out of slavery in Egypt.
  13. Deuteronômio 6:13The response to so much blessing should be fear, service, and loyalty to God, including in oaths made in His name.
  14. Deuteronômio 6:14It reinforces the ban on following the gods of the neighboring peoples who would surround Israel in the new land.
  15. Deuteronômio 6:15The reason repeated is God’s jealousy: unfaithfulness on this point would kindle an anger capable of destroying the people out of their own land.
  16. Deuteronômio 6:16Massah was where the people doubted whether God was really with them and demanded proof, an episode told in Exodus 17. The warning here is against repeating that kind of test: demanding extra proof from God after He has already shown He keeps His promises.
  17. Deuteronômio 6:17It calls for active diligence in keeping commandments, testimonies, and statutes — knowing is not enough, they must be carefully practiced.
  18. Deuteronômio 6:18Doing what is right and good in God’s eyes is presented as the practical key to prospering and taking possession of the promised land.
  19. Deuteronômio 6:19The reward for that obedience would be the driving out of the enemies from before the people, just as God had already promised.
  20. Deuteronômio 6:20It looks ahead to a future scene: a son asking the reason for all the laws and rules the family follows.
  21. Deuteronômio 6:21The suggested answer begins by telling their own story: we were slaves of Pharaoh, and the LORD brought us out of there with a strong hand.
  22. Deuteronômio 6:22It continues the summary to teach the children: the signs and the terrible plagues God brought against Pharaoh and all of Egypt, seen with their own eyes.
  23. Deuteronômio 6:23It closes the historical reminder: God brought the people out of Egypt precisely to give them the land promised to their ancestors.
  24. Deuteronômio 6:24The final explanation for the son is that keeping these laws is for the people’s own good, securing life and ongoing protection.
  25. Deuteronômio 6:25It ends with an important idea: carrying out the commandments before God would be counted as righteousness for the people.

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