Deut 6:11-15
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Verse 13
- Fear the Lord. According to The Anchor Bible (v. 5, p. 345), fear (cf. verse 2) and love (cf. verse 5) were considered synonyms in Old Testament times. Only in late times did the distinction between serving God out of love versus serving God out of fear come about. (For example, Ben Sira seems to use fear and love interchangeably in The Book of Sirach 2:18-19 and 7:29-30, but in Philo's On the Unchangeableness of God (XIII-XIV) a distinction between serving out of love and fear is made.)
- Christ's quoting of this verse. Note that Christ seems to quote this verse when he is being tempted by Satan in Matt 4:10.
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Verse 14
- Go after. According to The Anchor Bible (5:6-18 Notes), this expression has conjugal connotations (cf. Jer 2:2, 25; Hosea 2:7, 15).
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Verse 15
- God is a jealous God. See the notes on Deut 5:9 where God says this in relation to the second of the 10 commandments about not bowing down to other Gods.
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