KJV King James Version
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.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
ASV American Standard Version
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 Young’s Literal Translation
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;
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 10
12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens [is] the LORD’S thy God, the earth [also], with all that therein [is].
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.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
17 For the LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
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רַ֧קH7535 · raqexceptבַּאֲבֹתֶ֛יךָH1 · avfatherחָשַׁ֥קH2836 · cha.shaqto desireיְהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDלְאַהֲבָ֣הH157 · a.havto love: loverאוֹתָ֑םH853 · et[Obj.]וַיִּבְחַ֞רH977 · ba.charto chooseבְּזַרְעָ֣םH2233 · ze.raseedאַחֲרֵיהֶ֗םH310 · a.charafterבָּכֶ֛םH9036 · khemyouמִכָּל־H3605 · kolallהָעַמִּ֖יםH5971 · ampeopleכַּיּ֥וֹםH3117 · yomdayהַזֶּה׃H2088 · zehthis
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 4:37And 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;Romans 9:13-23As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.Deuteronomy 7:7-8The 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:Numbers 14:8If 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.
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