It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 4 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
"The LORD is God; there is no other besides him" is the explicit monotheistic formula Paul restates as "there is no other God but one." The negation "no other" matches closely. High volume and direct coherence with the chapter's argument that idols are nothing.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The scribe's approving gloss, 'he is one, and there is no other but he,' echoes Deuteronomy's monotheistic confession 'the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.' This buttresses the Shema's 'the Lord is one' with the classic Deuteronomic affirmation of God's uniqueness.
Medium confidence