Deuteronomy 5:10

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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מצותו

mitsvâh

H4687

“commandments · his”

Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 184× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 26:5

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6680

TWOT: 1887b

commandment - commandment (of man) - the commandment (of God) - commandment (of code of wisdom)

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

7: words
6: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
3 nouns
1 adjective

Verb forms

וְעֹ֥שֶׂה Qal · Participle Active
לְאֹהֲבַ֖י Qal · Participle Active
וּלְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י Qal · Participle Active

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

מצותו commandment H4687 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 15 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 5:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Romans 8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
Jeremiah 32:18 who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Hosts is his name;
Deuteronomy 6:5–6 and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
Daniel 9:4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
Matthew 7:21–27 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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.
Deuteronomy 10:12–13 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Isaiah 1:16–19 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; Cease to do evil.
John 14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:21–23 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
1 John 5:2–3 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Deuteronomy 5:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעֹ֥שֶׂה חֶ֖סֶד לַֽאֲלָפִ֑ים לְאֹהֲבַ֖י וּלְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י מצותו מִצְוֺתָֽי

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 5:10 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ποιέω ἔλεος εἰς χιλιάς ὁ ἀγαπάω ἐγώ καί ὁ φυλάσσω ὁ πρόσταγμα ἐγώ

and doing mercifully to thousands of them that love me, and that keep my commandments.

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)

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.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְעָבֵד טֵּיבוּ לְאַלְפֵי דָרִין לְרַחֲמַי וּלְנָטְּרֵי פִקוֹדָי

(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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּנְטִיר חֶסֶד וְטִיבוּ לְאַלְפֵי דָרִין לְרַחֲמֵי צַדִּיקַיָא וּלְנַטְרֵי פִּקוּדַי וְאוֹרַיְיתָי

but keeping mercy and bounty for a thousand generations of the righteous who love Me and keep My mandates and My laws.

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 5:10 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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Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

5:10 who love me: Those who choose to accept the Lord do not hate or reject him.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

The first degree to keep the commandments, is to love God.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(10) Them that love me.—We have an echo of this commandment in the words of our Saviour: “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (Joh_14:15). The promise of His presence with us through the “other Comforter” compensates for the absence of any visible image. As love in this verse is practical, so is hatred in the previous verse. To hate God is to disobey His commandments.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

10. shewing mercy] better, loyal or true love; cf. Deu_7:9; Deu_7:12 keeping covenant and true love (Sg.). The Heb. term ḥesed as including both affection and constancy is peculiarly appropriate here.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mitsvâh (“commandment”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word mitsvâh carries the sense “commandment.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Romans 8:28, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “commandment” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וְעֹ֥שֶׂה» is a Qal Participle Active verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
“commandment” occurs 2× in this single verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.