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Deuteronomy 10:13 Explained in Context

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Verse 13. To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

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Deuteronomy 10:13 adds command keeping and explicitly names its purpose as Israel's good.

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  • Deuteronomy 10:12–22

Read Deuteronomy 10:13 with 10:12–22. It adds command keeping and explicitly names its purpose as Israel's good. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: Moses gathers fear, walking, love, service, commands for good, divine ownership, election, heart circumcision, impartial justice, care for orphan, widow, and stranger, and Israel's own migrant memory.

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Read Deuteronomy 10:12–22 — Fear, Love, Heart Change, and Love of the Stranger
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King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

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Exact location: Deuteronomy 10:12–22, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Deut.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 10:12–22

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