Deuteronomy 10:15
Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy 10:15 in other translations
| BSB | Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day. |
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| WEB | Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today. |
| ASV | Only Jehovah had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day. |
| YLT | only in thy fathers hath Jehovah delighted--to love them, and He doth fix on their seed after them--on you, out of all the peoples as at this day; |
| DARBY | Only, Jehovah took pleasure in thy fathers, to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you, out of all the peoples, as it is this day. |
| BBE | But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day. |
| Webster | Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. |
What does Deuteronomy 10:15 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 10:10-22
10-22. Moses here resumes his address, and having made a passing allusion to the principal events in their history, concludes by exhorting them to fear the Lord and serve Him faithfully.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:12-22
We are here taught our duty to God in our principles and our practices. We must fear the Lord our God. We must love him, and delight in communion with him. We must walk in the ways in which he has appointed us to walk. We must serve him with all our heart and soul. What we do in his service we must do cheerfully, and with good will. We must keep his commandments. There is true honour and pleasure in obedience. We…
Deuteronomy 10:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 10:15
- Deuteronomy 4:37
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 7:7-8
The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
- Numbers 14:8
If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
- Romans 9:13-23
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. …
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Context
- Deuteronomy 10:14
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
- Deuteronomy 10:15
Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
- Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Deuteronomy 10:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Solamente de tus padres se agradó Jehová para amarlos, y escogió su simiente después de ellos, á vosotros, de entre todos los pueblos, como en este día. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Cependant l’ Éternel s’est attaché à tes pères pour les aimer; et il vous a choisis, vous, leur semence, après eux, d’entre tous les peuples, comme il paraît aujourd’hui. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jedoch deinen Vätern hat Jehova sich zugeneigt, sie zu lieben; und er hat euch, ihren Samen nach ihnen, aus allen Völkern erwählt, wie es an diesem Tage ist. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et tamen patribus tuis conglutinatus est Dominus, et amavit eos, elegitque semen eorum post eos, id est, vos, de cunctis gentibus, sicut hodie comprobatur. |