For you to listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep His commands, and His statutes, which are written in the book of this law, for you to turn back to Jehovah your God, with all the heart, and with all the soul. For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?" Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" But the message is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may accomplish it. See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction in that I am commanding you to-day to love Jehovah your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments; and you have lived and multiplied, and Jehovah your God has blessed You in the land where ever you come in to it possess it. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
John 10:27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
John 10:3 The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
John 10:4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
John 10:5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice."
To listen to the voice of a stranger is the same as to bow down to other gods and worship them. Why voice and not word? I think it is because the stranger has most of the same words but the words are counterfeit words, thus they can be discerned by anyone loving Yahweh with the whole heart.
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