Deuteronomy 10:13

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 10:13 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?
  • King James Version Public Domain
    To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    to keep the commandments of Yahweh and his statutes, which I am commanding you today for your good?

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?
  • King James Version Public Domain
    To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    to keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    That thou keepe the commandements of the Lord, and his ordinances, which I commaund thee this day, for thy wealth?
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee?
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    to keep the commands of Jehovah, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, for good to thee?
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    to keep the commands of YHWH, and His statutes which I am commanding you today, for good for you?
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I am commanding you today for your own good?
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    to keep the commandments of Yahweh and his statutes, which I am commanding you today for your good?
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command thee this day, for thy good?
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    to keep the LORD’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    He wants you to keep the commandments and regulations of the Lord that I am giving you today for your own good.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    to keep for thy good the commandments of the LORD, and His statutes, which I command thee this day?

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חֻקֹּתָ֔יו
chuqqâh
H2708
“statutes · his”
Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2706

TWOT: 728b

statute, ordinance, limit, enactment, something prescribed - statute
  1. לִשְׁמֹ֞ר shâmar H8104 “to keep” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
  2. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  3. מִצְוֺ֤ת mitsvâh H4687 “commandments of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
  4. יְהוָה֙ Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  5. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  6. אֲשֶׁ֛ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  7. אָנֹכִ֥י ʼânôkîy H595 “I” Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  8. מְצַוְּךָ֖ tsâvâh H6680 “commanding · you” Verb, Piel, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  9. הַיּ֑וֹם yôwm H3117 “the · day” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. לְט֖וֹב ṭôwb H2896 “to/for · good” Preposition + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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12
words
10
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 pronoun
  • 1 preposition
  • 3 particles

Verb forms

  • לִשְׁמֹ֞ר Qal · Infinitive Construct
  • מְצַוְּךָ֖ Piel · Participle Active

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 25 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 20 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 10:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Jeremiah 32:39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
  • Deuteronomy 6:24 Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.
  • James 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew Deuteronomy 10:13 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

לִשְׁמֹ֞ר אֶת מִצְוֺ֤ת יְהוָה֙ וְאֶת חֻקֹּתָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י מְצַוְּךָ֖ הַיּ֑וֹם לְט֖וֹב לָֽךְ

to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 10:13 Septuagint · lemma form

φυλάσσω ὁ ἐντολή κύριος ὁ θεός σύ καί ὁ δικαίωμα αὐτός ὅσος ἐγώ ἐντέλλομαι σύ σήμερον ἵνα εὖ σύ εἰμί

to keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his ordinances, all that I charge you today, that it may be well with you?

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    לְמִטַר יָת פִּקוֹדַיָא דַיְיָ וְיָת קְיָמוֹהִי דַאֲנָא מְפַקְדָךְ יוֹמָא דֵין לִדְיֵיטַב לָךְ

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    לְמִנְטוֹר יַת פִּקּוּדוֹי דַיְיָ וְיַת קְיָימוֹהִי דַאֲנָא מְפַקֵיד יַתְכוֹן יוֹמָא דֵין מְטוּל דְיוֹטֵב לְכוֹן

    to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you this day, that it may be well with you?

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Deuteronomy 10:13 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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John Gill's Exposition

To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes,.... Both the ten commands and all others:

which I command thee this day for thy good; promises of temporal good things, introduction into the land of Canaan, possession of it, and continuance in it, being made to obedience to them.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

'לשמר את מצות ה TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD — and this, too, not unrequited, but לטוב לך FOR THY GOOD — that you should receive a reward for doing so.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chuqqâh (“statute”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “statute” (chuqqâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. Jeremiah 32:39 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. The verb «לִשְׁמֹ֞ר» is Qal Infinitive Construct. How does its form color the action?
  5. Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Rashi read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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