Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel, Yahweh our God is one Yahweh."
Genesis 2:24 "Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall become one flesh."
Word used for "one" in Deuteronomy 6:4: "ehad".
Word used for "one" in Genesis 2:24: "ehad".
Word that could have been used in Deuteronomy 6:4 if the writer had meant "unique, a single or only one": "yahed".
The way "ehad" is consistently used in the Tanakh: "a compound unity, one made up of others"; see also Genesis 1:5, 2:11, 2:21, 3:22, 49:16, Numbers 13:23, Psalms 34:20, Jeremiah 8:10 (translated as "altogether" in JPS).
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2007-07-11
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