Exhortation to obey Yahweh's commands, referring to the Decalogue (Deuteronomy 5:6-21) or to Deuteronomy 12 ff. to which it would make an excellent introduction, as it may have been originally.
Deuteronomy 6:1. commandment: better, commandments; Heb. uses the singular where in other languages the plural would stand.
Deuteronomy 6:2. fear: Deuteronomy 4:10 *.
Deuteronomy 6:3. See Deuteronomy 4:1 *. milk and honey: Exodus 3:8 *.
1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye goa to possess it:
2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.