And Jesus answered him,
The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Literally the Lord our God is the only Lord: and this is the sense of the text in Deuteronomy vi. 4. The word in the original text, rendered by the term Lord, is the grand name JEHOVA, which signifies properly God, considered as the supreme Being, or the author of all existence.