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Place these words on your hearts. Get them deep inside you. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder.
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Teach them to your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning until you fall into bed at night.
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Inscribe them on the doorposts and gates of your cities
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so that you'll live a long time, and your children with you, on the soil that God promised to give your ancestors for as long as there is a sky over the Earth.
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That's right. If you diligently keep all this commandment that I command you to obey - love God, your God, do what he tells you, stick close to him -
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.