its a simple question, what does the Shema have to do with other gods? there are no other gods mentioned in the Shema, it says nothing of worshiping one G-D as opposed to worshipping many gods, so how do you come up with this concept?
You then get the answer and then question the answer without ever reading the context. I told you that "ONE OF THE PURPOSES OR BETTER YET ONE OF THE APPLACATIONS of the Shema was to warn Israel not to follow after other false gods. Your own question would have been answered if you were not so "LAZY" and read the context surrounding the verse.
At Deuteronomy 5 you have God speaking to Moses and God giving Moses the ten commandments. God then tells Moses at vs6,7, "I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery." Then what is the first thing God tells Moses/Israel? "You shall have no other gods before Me." Vs8, "You shall not make for yourself an idol. You shal not worship them, vs9.
If you want to know how all of this is connected with the Shema I highly suggest you go see the movie "The Ten Commandments." with Charlton Heston to see what the Jews were doing while Moses was with God getting the Ten Commandments. And that is (what did you say?) how I came up with this "concept?"
IN GOD THE SON,
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