⁷ Keep repeating them to your children. Recite them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.^(A)

Instruction to Children. ^20 (A)Later on, when your son asks you, “What do these decrees and statutes and ordinances mean?”^(B) which the Lord, our God, has enjoined on you, ^21 (C)you shall say to your son, “We were once slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand^{(D) 22} and wrought before our eyes signs and wonders, great and dire, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and his whole house. ²³ He brought us from there to bring us in and give us the land he had promised on oath to our ancestors.^{(E) 24 (F)}The Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes in fear of the Lord, our God, that we may always have as good a life as we have today. ²⁵ This is our justice before the Lord, our God: to observe carefully this whole commandment he has enjoined on us.”

¹⁹ Teach them to your children, speaking of them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up, ²⁰ and write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates, ²¹ so that, as long as the heavens are above the earth, you and your children may live on in the land which the Lord swore to your ancestors he would give them.

¹² Assemble the people—men, women and children, as well as the resident aliens who live in your communities—that they may hear and so learn to fear the Lord, your God, and to observe carefully all the words of this law. ¹³ Their children also, who do not know it yet, shall hear and learn to fear the Lord, your God, as long as you live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.