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name: shema
version: "1"
date: 2026-07-29
category: religious
title: The Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4–9)
language: en
authentic: false
type: full-text
kind: creed
license: public-domain
source_url: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.6.4-9
notes: "Courtesy translation: The Holy Scriptures — A New Translation, Jewish Publication Society, 1917 (public domain), via Sefaria. The Hebrew text (1.he) is the authentic text of this entry. Verse numbers 4-9 retained."
---

# The Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4–9)

4. HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.

5. And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

6. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart;

7. and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

8. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.

9. And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.