◄ Deuteronomy 10:15 ►
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Good News Translation
But the LORD's love for your ancestors was so strong that he chose you instead of any other people, and you are still his chosen people.

New Revised Standard Version
yet the LORD set his heart in love on your ancestors alone and chose you, their descendants after them, out of all the peoples, as it is today.

Contemporary English Version
Yet the LORD loved your ancestors and wanted them to belong to him. So he chose them and their descendants rather than any other nation, and today you are still his people.

New American Bible
Yet only on your ancestors did the LORD set his heart to love them. He chose you, their descendants, from all the peoples, as it is today.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved.

Deuteronomy 4:37 Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power,

Deuteronomy 7:7,8 Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people: . . .

Numbers 14:8 If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.

Romans 9:13-23 As it is written: Jacob I have loved: but Esau I have hated. . . .

Context
A Call to Obedience
…14Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and the heaven of heaven, the earth and all things that are therein. 15And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved.16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.…
Cross References
Romans 11:28
As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers.

1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Numbers 14:8
If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 4:37
Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power,

Psalm 44:3
Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.

Psalm 135:4
For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself: Israel for his own possession.

Deuteronomy 10:14
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