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According to the gospels, Jesus said the greatest commandment was to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.” [38] The scripture in Deuteronomy to which he referred is known in modern times as the Shema, a declaration emphasizing the oneness of God and the sole worship of God by Israel. [39]
deuteronomy 6 Moses exhorts the Israelites not to forget the God who freed them from bondage in Egypt, to revere and worship only God, and to swear only by God’s name, lest the anger of God blaze forth against them and wipe them off the face of the earth.
Some resources for more complete information on the scrolls are the book by Emanuel Tov, "Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert" [3] for a complete list of all of the Dead Sea Scroll texts, as well as the online webpages for the Shrine of the Book [4] and the Leon Levy Collection, [5] both of which present photographs and images of the scrolls and fragments themselves for closer ...
The New Living Translation (NLT) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 1996 by Tyndale House Foundation , the NLT was created "by 90 leading Bible scholars." [ 4 ] The NLT relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts.
Deuteronomy 5:11, see also Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. λήψη, 'shall take' – ABP [6] Brenton [9] (classical Greek spelling) λήμψῃ, 'shall take' – LXX Swete [3] LXX Rahlfs [4] (Koine Greek spelling) Compare Exodus 20:7. Deuteronomy 5:11, see also Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
The term Shema is used by extension to refer to the whole part of the daily prayers that commences with Shema Yisrael and comprises Deuteronomy 6:4–9, 11:13–21, and Numbers 15:37–41. These sections of the Torah are read in the weekly Torah portions Va'etchanan , Eikev , and Shlach , respectively.
With the Old Testament, Apocrypha, and New Testament, the total number of books in the Protestant Bible becomes 80. [4] Many modern Protestant Bibles print only the Old Testament and New Testament; [ 31 ] there is a 400-year intertestamental period in the chronology of the Christian scriptures between the Old and New Testaments.
It is the first English vernacular translation of the first six books of the Old Testament, i.e. the five books of the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) and Joshua. It was probably made for use by lay people. [3] The translation is known in seven manuscripts, [4] most of which are fragmentary.