Deuteronomy 6:4
New International Version
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

New Living Translation
“Listen, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone.

English Standard Version
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

Berean Standard Bible
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.

King James Bible
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

New King James Version
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!

New American Standard Bible
“Hear, Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!

NASB 1995
“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!

NASB 1977
“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!

Legacy Standard Bible
“Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh is one!

Amplified Bible
“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one [the only God]!

Christian Standard Bible
“Listen, Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Listen, Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.

American Standard Version
Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Hear, Israel: LORD JEHOVAH our God, LORD JEHOVAH is one:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Listen, Israel! The LORD our God is the only true God!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

English Revised Version
Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Listen, Israel: The LORD is our God. The LORD is the only God.

Good News Translation
"Israel, remember this! The LORD--and the LORD alone--is our God.

International Standard Version
"Listen, Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone.

JPS Tanakh 1917
HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.

Literal Standard Version
Hear, O Israel: Our God YHWH—YHWH [is] one!

Majority Standard Bible
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.

New American Bible
Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone!

NET Bible
Listen, Israel: The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!

New Revised Standard Version
Hear, O Israel: The LORD is our God, the LORD alone.

New Heart English Bible
Hear, Israel: the LORD is our God, the LORD is one.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD:

World English Bible
Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

Young's Literal Translation
Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Greatest Commandment
3Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you. 4Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. 5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.…

Cross References
Matthew 22:37
Jesus declared, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

Mark 12:29
Jesus replied, "This is the most important: 'Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

Mark 12:30
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'

Luke 10:27
He answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' and 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"

John 10:30
I and the Father are one."

Romans 3:30
since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

1 Corinthians 8:4
So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.


Treasury of Scripture

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

the Lord

Deuteronomy 4:35,36
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him…

Deuteronomy 5:6
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

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(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.

Verses 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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Hear,
שְׁמַ֖ע‪‬ (šə·ma‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

O Israel:
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

The LORD
יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

our God,
אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ (’ĕ·lō·hê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

the LORD
יְהוָ֥ה ׀ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

is One.
אֶחָֽד׃‪‬ (’e·ḥāḏ)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first


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