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**these are.** Hebrew "this is".
**commandments.** See note on [Deuteronomy 5:31](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/5/31) .
**statutes, and the judgments.** See note on [Deuteronomy 4:1](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/1) .
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .
**go.** Hebrew pass over.

**Hear . . . observe.** Note the Figure of speech *Paronomasia* ( App-6 ), used for emphasis: May be Englished *"Hear .* . . *Heed".*
**as** = according as.
**the land, &c.** Compare [Genesis 17:8](../../../kjv/genesis/17/8) . [Exodus 3:8](../../../kjv/exodus/3/8) , [Exodus 3:17](../../../kjv/exodus/3/17) ; [Exodus 13:5](../../../kjv/exodus/13/5) ; [Exodus 33:3](../../../kjv/exodus/33/3) .[Numbers 13:27](../../../kjv/numbers/13/27) ; [Numbers 13:14](../../../kjv/numbers/13/14) , [Numbers 13:8](../../../kjv/numbers/13/8) ; [Numbers 16:13](../../../kjv/numbers/16/13) , [Numbers 16:14](../../../kjv/numbers/16/14) .[Joshua 5:6](../../../kjv/joshua/5/6) . [Jeremiah 11:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/11/5) ; [Jeremiah 32:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/32/22) .[Ezekiel 20:6](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/6) , [Ezekiel 20:15](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/15) .

**Hear.** In the Hebrew text this word ( *sham'a)* has the last letter majuscular (i.e. larger than the others) as also the last letter of the last word ( *'echad* ), to emphasize "the first and great commandment" ([Matthew 22:38](../../../kjv/matthew/22/38) . [Mark 12:29](../../../kjv/mark/12/29) , [Mark 12:30](../../../kjv/mark/12/30) ). These two letters taken together make 'ed = "a witness", because God is a witness and looketh on the heart ([1 Samuel 16:7](../../../kjv/1-samuel/16/7) ). In Hebrew. *shem'a yisrael yeh6va elheynu yehova. echad =* "Hear, O Israel, Jehovah (the Self and ever existing One), our Elohim is one Jehovah".
**one.** Hebrew ' *ehad* = a compound unity (Latin. *unus)* , one made up of others: [Genesis 1:5](../../../kjv/genesis/1/5) , one of seven; [Deuteronomy 2:11](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/2/11) , one of four; [Deuteronomy 2:21](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/2/21) , one of twenty-four; [Deuteronomy 2:24](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/2/24) , one made up of two; [Deuteronomy 3:22](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/3/22) , one of the Trinity: Deu 49:16 , one of twelve; [Numbers 13:23](../../../kjv/numbers/13/23) , one of a cluster. So [Psalms 34:20](../../../kjv/psalms/34/20) , &c. It is not *yahid,* which is (Latin) *unicus,* unique a single, or only one, occurs twelve times: [Genesis 22:2](../../../kjv/genesis/22/2) , [Genesis 22:12](../../../kjv/genesis/22/12) , [Genesis 22:16](../../../kjv/genesis/22/16) . [Judges 11:34](../../../kjv/judges/11/34) .[Psalms 22:20](../../../kjv/psalms/22/20) ; [Psalms 25:16](../../../kjv/psalms/25/16) ; [Psalms 35:17](../../../kjv/psalms/35/17) ; [Psalms 68:6](../../../kjv/psalms/68/6) . [Proverbs 4:3](../../../kjv/proverbs/4/3) .[Jeremiah 6:26](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/26) . [Amos 8:10](../../../kjv/amos/8/10) . [Zechariah 12:10](../../../kjv/zechariah/12/10) . Hebrew of all other words for "one" is *'echad.*
**(4-9)** One of the four Phylacteries. [Exodus 13:1-10](../../../kjv/exodus/13/1-10) ; [Exodus 13:11-16](../../../kjv/exodus/13/11-16) . [Exodus 6:4-9](../../../kjv/exodus/6/4-9) ; Exo 11:13-21 . See note on [Exodus 13:1](../../../kjv/exodus/13/1) , Compare the Structures of the second pair (above).

**love.** The Law founded on love.
**soul.** Hebrew. *nephesh.* See App-13 .

**this day.** See note on [Deuteronomy 4:26](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/26) .

**teach.** Hebrew "sharpen" or "whet" = rub them in by repetition.

**bind.** Still practiced by orthodox Jews.
**hand.** Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, read plural "hands".
**as** = for.
**frontlets.** Greek. phylacteries = guards or watch-posts.

**write.** See note on [Exodus 17:4](../../../kjv/exodus/17/4) and App-47 .
**posts** = door-posts. Hebrew. *mezuza.* Used to-day, for cases containing the Phylactery.

**Abraham, &c.** Note inclusion of all three patriarchs. See note on [Deuteronomy 1:8](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/8) .

**LORD** = Jehovah. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, add "thy God".
**bondage.** Hebrew bondmen, put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for their bondage.

**Thou shalt fear.** Read this verse as follows, and preserve the emphasis on "Him", and the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton,* App-6 : "Jehovah, thy Elohim, Him shalt thou reverence, And Him shalt thou serve, And by His Name shalt thou swear. "

**destroy** = cut off: exterminate. Hebrew. *shamad.*
**earth.** Hebrew. *'adamah,* ground, cultivated land.

**Ye, &c.** Quoted by the Lord to Satan, and changed to sing, by adaptation. See [Matthew 4:7](../../../kjv/matthew/4/7) .
**tempt** = try: by questioning Jehovah's presence. This was the point in [Matthew 4:7](../../../kjv/matthew/4/7) .
**as** = according as.

**in time to come.** Hebrew "to-morrow". Definite date put for indefinite.

**sore.** Hebrew. *r'a =* inflicted evil, not moral. Compare [Jeremiah 18:11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/18/11) .[Amos 3:6](../../../kjv/amos/3/6) , and see note on [Isaiah 45:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/45/7) .

**always** = for all time. Hebrew all the days.

**our righteousness.** This is superseded by [Romans 10:4](../../../kjv/romans/10/4) , [Romans 10:5](../../../kjv/romans/10/5) .[Galatians 1:3](../../../kjv/galatians/1/3) , [Galatians 1:12](../../../kjv/galatians/1/12) . That true then: this true now. No discrepancy if the Dispensations are rightly divided according to [2 Timothy 2:15](../../../kjv/2-timothy/2/15) .

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