NEW TESTAMENT

Mark 12:29

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Jesus answered, “The greatest is: ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

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Verse 29. Literally the Lord our God is the only Lord: and this is the sense of the text in Deuteronomy 6:4. 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.

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