Kumbukumbu La Torati 6:4
Sikia, ee Israeli: Mwenyezi Mungu, Mungu wako, Mwenyezi Mungu ni mmoja.This verse in the real world
Who
In what words
- אֶחָדʼechâdproperly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
- שָׁמַעshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively,
- יִשְׂרָאֵלYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
- אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the
- יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of God
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
What's left of it
- The Nash PapyrusNamed outside the BibleThe Ten Commandments and the Shema were being copied on papyrus in the second century BC.
- The Aleppo and Leningrad codicesNamed outside the BibleThe Hebrew text used today descends from copies whose scribes counted letters and verses in the margins to keep it fixed — and those copies can be compared against Qumran a thousand years earlier.
Cross-references
Mrk 12:29–32, Isa 44:6, 1Ti 2:5, Isa 45:5–6, Jhn 17:3, Jhn 10:30, Isa 44:8, Isa 42:8