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title: "Deuteronomy 6 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate"
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description: "An exhortation to the love of God, and obedience to his law. Deuteronomy 6 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Deuteronomy 6

Deuteronomy 6 is chapter 6 of 34 in the Book of Deuteronomy. Here are all 25 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> An exhortation to the love of God, and obedience to his law.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Deuteronomy 6 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. “These are the precepts and ceremonies, as well as the judgments, which the Lord your God has commanded that I teach to you, which you shall do in the land to which you will travel in order to possess it.
2. So may you fear the Lord your God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which I am entrusting to you, and to your sons and grandsons, all the days of your life, so that your days may be prolonged.
3. Listen and observe, O Israel, so that you may do just as the Lord has instructed you, and it may be well with you, and you may be multiplied all the more, for the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.
4. Listen, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord.
5. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6. And these words, which I instruct to you this day, shall be in your heart.
7. And you shall explain them to your sons. And you shall meditate upon them sitting in your house, and walking on a journey, when lying down and when rising up.
8. And you shall bind them like a sign on your hand, and they shall be placed and shall move between your eyes.
9. And you shall write them at the threshold and on the doors of your house.
10. And when the Lord your God will have led you into the land, about which he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and when he will have given to you great and excellent cities, which you did not build;
11. houses full of goods, which you did not amass; cisterns, which you did not dig; vineyards and olive groves, which you did not plant;
12. and when you will have eaten and been satisfied:
13. take care diligently, lest you forget the Lord, who led you away from the land of Egypt, from the house of servitude. You shall fear the Lord your God, and you shall serve him alone, and you shall swear by his name.
14. You shall not go after the strange gods of all the Gentiles, who are around you.
15. For the Lord your God is a jealous God in your midst. Otherwise, at some time, the fury of the Lord your God may be enraged against you, and he may take you away from the face of the earth.
16. You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted him in the place of temptation.
17. Keep the precepts of the Lord your God, as well as the testimonies and ceremonies, which he has instructed to you.
18. And do what is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, so that it may be well with you, and so that, when you enter, you may possess the excellent land, about which the Lord swore to your fathers
19. that he would wipe away all your enemies before you, just as he has spoken.
20. And when your son will ask you tomorrow, saying: ‘What do these testimonies and ceremonies and judgments mean, which the Lord our God has entrusted to us?’
21. You shall say to him: ‘We were servants of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord led us away from Egypt with a strong hand.
22. And he wrought signs and wonders, great and very grievous, in Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his house, in our sight.
23. And he led us away from that place, so that he might lead us in and give us the land, about which he swore to our fathers.
24. And the Lord instructed us that we should do all these ordinances, and that we should fear the Lord our God, so that it may be well with us all the days of our life, just as it is today.
25. And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and perform all his precepts, in the sight of the Lord our God, just as he has commanded us.’”

## Deuteronomy 6 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Hæc sunt præcepta, et cæremoniæ, atque judicia, quæ mandavit Dominus Deus vester ut docerem vos, et faciatis ea in terra, ad quam transgredimini possidendam:
2. ut timeas Dominum Deum tuum, et custodias omnia mandata et præcepta ejus, quæ ego præcipio tibi, et filiis, ac nepotibus tuis, cunctis diebus vitæ tuæ, ut prolongentur dies tui.
3. Audi, Israël, et observa ut facias quæ præcepit tibi Dominus, et bene sit tibi, et multipliceris amplius, sicut pollicitus est Dominus Deus patrum tuorum tibi terram lacte et melle manantem.
4. Audi, Israël: Dominus Deus noster, Dominus unus est.
5. Diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex toto corde tuo, et ex tota anima tua, et ex tota fortitudine tua.
6. Eruntque verba hæc, quæ ego præcipio tibi hodie, in corde tuo:
7. et narrabis ea filiis tuis, et meditaberis in eis sedens in domo tua, et ambulans in itinere, dormiens atque consurgens.
8. Et ligabis ea quasi signum in manu tua, eruntque et movebuntur inter oculos tuos,
9. scribesque ea in limine, et ostiis domus tuæ.
10. Cumque introduxerit te Dominus Deus tuus in terram, pro qua juravit patribus tuis Abraham, Isaac, et Jacob, et dederit tibi civitates magnas et optimas, quas non ædificasti,
11. domos plenas cunctarum opum, quas non exstruxisti, cisternas, quas non fodisti, vineta et oliveta, quæ non plantasti,
12. et comederis, et saturatus fueris:
13. cave diligenter ne obliviscaris Domini, qui eduxit te de terra Ægypti, de domo servitutis. Dominum Deum tuum timebis, et illi soli servies, ac per nomen illius jurabis.
14. Non ibitis post deos alienos cunctarum gentium, quæ in circuitu vestro sunt:
15. quoniam Deus æmulator Dominus Deus tuus in medio tui: nequando irascatur furor Domini Dei tui contra te, et auferat te de superficie terræ.
16. Non tentabis Dominum Deum tuum, sicut tentasti in loco tentationis.
17. Custodi præcepta Domini Dei tui, ac testimonia et cæremonias, quas præcepit tibi:
18. et fac quod placitum est et bonum in conspectu Domini, ut bene sit tibi: et ingressus possideas terram optimam, de qua juravit Dominus patribus tuis,
19. ut deleret omnes inimicos tuos coram te, sicut locutus est.
20. Cumque interrogaverit te filius tuus cras, dicens: Quid sibi volunt testimonia hæc, et cæremoniæ, atque judicia, quæ præcepit Dominus Deus noster nobis?
21. dices ei: Servi eramus Pharaonis in Ægypto, et eduxit nos Dominus de Ægypto in manu forti:
22. fecitque signa atque prodigia magna et pessima in Ægypto contra Pharaonem, et omnem domum illius in conspectu nostro,
23. et eduxit nos inde, ut introductis daret terram, super qua juravit patribus nostris.
24. Præcepitque nobis Dominus ut faciamus omnia legitima hæc, et timeamus Dominum Deum nostrum, ut bene sit nobis cunctis diebus vitæ nostræ, sicut est hodie.
25. Eritque nostri misericors, si custodierimus et fecerimus omnia præcepta ejus coram Domino Deo nostro, sicut mandavit nobis.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2083: You Shall Love the Lord Your God With All Your Heart, and With All Your Soul, and With All Your Mind ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2093: "You Shall Worship the Lord Your God and Him Only Shall You Serve" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2196: You Shall Love Your Neighbor As Yourself ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2055: The Ten Commandments ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2084: "You Shall Worship the Lord Your God and Him Only Shall You Serve" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2150: Taking the Name of the Lord in Vain ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2096: "Him Only Shall You Serve" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2119: "You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Man has a beautiful office, that of praying and loving. You pray, you love: that is the happiness of man on earth.” — St. John Vianney, Sermon on Love of God, c. 1850 (On this theme: verse 5)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Aug 7, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Deuteronomy 6:4-13
- Sun, Oct 31, 2027 (computed): Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Deuteronomy 6:2-6

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).