Deuteronomy 10:13

and to obey all of his commandments [DOU] which I am giving to you today for your benefit.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

In Context

12“Now, you Israeli people, I will tell you [RHQ] what Yahweh our God requires/demands that you do. He requires you to revere him, to conduct your lives as he wants you to, to love him, and to serve him wholeheartedly [DOU],

14“Do not forget that Yahweh our God owns even the sky and everything that is in it. He also owns the earth and everything that is on it.

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Cross References

Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are the one who will benefit from it; if you ridicule becoming wise, you are the one who will suffer.

James 1:25But other people look closely at God’s message, which is perfect and which sets people free to voluntarily do what God wants them to do. And if they continue to examine God’s message and do not just hear it and then forget it, but do what God tells them to do, God will bless them because of what they do.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:13-22

Exhortation to Obedience. ( b. c. 1451.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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