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Deuteronomy 6:4
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2 athat you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, band that your days may be prolonged.  
3 Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may amultiply greatly bas the Lord God of your fathers has promised you—c‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’  
4 a“Hear, O Israel:1 The Lord our God, the Lord is one!  
5 aYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, bwith all your soul, and with all your strength.  
6 “And athese words which I command you today shall be in your heart.  
7 aYou shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.  
8 aYou shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.  
9 aYou shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.  

Caution Against Disobedience

10 “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He1 swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities awhich you did not build,  
11 houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—awhen you have eaten and are full—  
12 then beware, lest you forget the aLord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.  
13 You shall afear the Lord your God and serve Him, and bshall take oaths in His name.  
14 You shall not go after other gods, athe gods of the peoples who are all around you  
15 (for athe Lord your God is a jealous God bamong you), lest the anger of the Lord your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.  
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Deuteronomy 6:4

These words form the beginning of what is termed the "Shema" ("Hear" ) in the Jewish Services, and belong to the daily morning and evening office. They may be called "the creed of the Jews."

This weighty text contains far more than a mere declaration of the unity of God as against polytheism; or of the sole authority of the revelation that He had made to Israel as against other pretended manifestations of His will and attributes. It asserts that the Lord God of Israel is absolutely God, and none other. He, and He alone, is Jehovah (Yahweh) the absolute, uncaused God; the One who had, by His election of them, made Himself known to Israel.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Deuteronomy 6:4:

Deuteronomy 6:8-9
Isaiah 54:5
Matthew 22:34-40
Matthew 23:5
Mark 12:28-34
1 Corinthians 2:10
1 Corinthians 8:4
Galatians 3:20

 

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