Deuteronomy Chapter 6 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah:
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BBE Deuteronomy 6:4

Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:
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DARBY Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah;
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KJV Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
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WBT Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD:
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WEB Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one:
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YLT Deuteronomy 6:4

`Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God `is' one Jehovah;
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Deuteronomy 6 : 4 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 4-25. - THE FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT. "In the fear of Jehovah all true obedience is rooted (vers. 2, 3); for this is the first and most intimate fact in the relation of Israel and Jehovah (Deuteronomy 5:26). But where the supreme fear of Jehovah hinders men from allowing self to preponderate in opposition to God, there will be no stopping at this renunciation of self-will, though this comes first as the negative form of the ten commandments also shows, but there will come to be a coalescence of the human with the Divine will; and this is love, which is the proper condition of obedience, as the ten commandments also indicate (Deuteronomy 5:10)" (Baumgarten). Verse 4. - Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord. This is an affirmation not so much of the moneity as of the unity and simplicity of Jehovah, the alone God. Though Elohim (plu.), he is one. The speaker does not say, "Jehovah is alone God," but "Jehovah our Elohim is one Jehovah" (comp. for the force of אֶחָד, Exodus 26:6, 11; Ezekiel 37:16-19). Among the heathen there were many Baals and many Jupiters; and it was believed that the deity might be divided and communicated to many. But the God of Israel, Jehovah, is one, indivisible and incommunicable. He is the Absolute and the Infinite One, who alone is to be worshipped, on whom all depend, and to whose command all must yield obedience (cf. Zechariah 14:9). Not only to polytheism, but to pantheism, and to the conception of a localized or national deity, is this declaration of the unity of Jehovah opposed. With these words the Jews begin their daily liturgy, morning and evening; the sentence expresses the essence of their religious belief; and so familiar is it to their thought and speech that, it is said, they were often, during the persecution in Spain, betrayed to their enemies by the involuntary utterance of it.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4, 5) Hear, O Israel . . .--These two verses are styled by our Lord "the first and great commandment" in the Law. The first words of the Talmud concern the hours when this form should be recited in daily morning or evening prayer--"Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah" The unity of Jehovah, as opposed to the belief in "gods many and lords many," is the key-note of the Jewish faith. "We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity." But this truth, though visible in the Old Testament by the light of the New, was not explicitly revealed until it came forth in history, when the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world, and both sent the Holy Spirit to represent Him in the Church.