Deuteronomy 10:15

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“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.”

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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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 <FI>at<Fi> this day;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 10:15 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 14:8If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
  2. Deuteronomy 4:37Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
  3. Deuteronomy 7:7The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
  4. 1 Chronicles 16:13O offspring of His servant Israel, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
  5. Amos 3:2“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
  6. Romans 9:13So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

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