Deuteronomy 10:13

13 and ¹to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today ²for your good?

Deuteronomy 10:13 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 10:13

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.

Deuteronomy 10:13 In-Context

11 And the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.'

12 "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good?

14 Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.

15 Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 7:11
• 2. Deuteronomy 6:24