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Deuteronomy 10:12-15

An Exhortation to Love Both God and People

10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him,¹ to obey all his commandments,² to love him, to serve him³ with all your mind and being,⁴ 10:13 and to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes that I am giving⁵ you today for your own good? 10:14 The heavens – indeed the highest heavens – belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it. 10:15 However, only to your ancestors did he⁶ show his loving favor,⁷ and he chose you, their descendants,⁸ from all peoples – as is apparent today.

¹tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

²tn Heb “to walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “follow his ways exactly”; NLT “to live according to his will.”

³tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

⁴tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being”; NCV “with your whole being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

⁵tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation.

⁶tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

⁷tn Heb “take delight to love.” Here again the verb אָהַב (’ahav, “love”), juxtaposed with בָחַר (bakhar, “choose”), is a term in covenant contexts that describes the Lord’s initiative in calling the patriarchal ancestors to be the founders of a people special to him (cf. the note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37).

⁸tn The Hebrew text includes “after them,” but it is redundant in English style and has not been included in the translation.

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