Deuteronomy 10:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

Only the LORD delighted in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רַ֧ק בַּאֲבֹתֶ֛יךָ חָשַׁ֥ק יְהוָ֖ה לְאַהֲבָ֣ה אוֹתָ֑ם וַיִּבְחַ֞ר בְּזַרְעָ֣ם אַחֲרֵיהֶ֗ם בָּכֶ֛ם מִכָּל־הָעַמִּ֖ים כַּיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּה׃

Transliteration

Only in ʾăbōtêkā ḥāšaq YHWH to ləʾahăbâ ʾôtām and wayyibḥar in zarʿām after them in you from all the ʿammîm like the yôm the zeh

Grammar Details

• *ʾăbōtêkā*: masculine plural with 2nd masculine singular suffix and prefixed preposition bet - in your fathers
• *ḥāšaq*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - attached/loved
• *YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *ləʾahăbâ*: qal infinitive construct with prefixed preposition lamed - to love
• *ʾôtām*: direct object marker with 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
• *wayyibḥar*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he chose
• *zarʿām*: masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix and prefixed preposition bet - in their seed/descendants
• *ʾaḥărêhem*: preposition with 3rd masculine plural suffix - after them
• *bākem*: preposition with 2nd masculine plural suffix - in you
• *ʿammîm*: masculine plural with definite article and prefixed preposition min with kol - from all the peoples
• *yôm*: masculine singular with definite article - the day
• *zeh*: demonstrative with definite article - this

Word Meanings

• *ʾāb*: father/ancestor
• *ḥāšaq*: attach/love/desire
• *ʾāhēb*: love/be devoted to
• *bāḥar*: choose/select/elect
• *zeraʿ*: seed/offspring/descendants
• *ʿam*: people/nation/tribe

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Yet the LORD set His affection on your ancestors and loved them, and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Only the LORD had a light in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  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.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  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.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  only the Lorde had a lust vnto thy fathers to loue them, and therfore chose you theire seed after them off all nacyons, as it is come to passe this daye.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Yeth hath he had a pleasure vnto yi fathers, to loue the: and hath chosen their sede after the, namely you, aboue all nacions, as it is come to passe this daye.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Notwithstanding, the Lord set his delite in thy fathers to loue them, and did choose their seede after them, euen you aboue all people, as appeareth this day.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Notwithstandyng, the Lorde had a delight in thy fathers to loue them, and chose their seede after them, euen you aboue all nations, as thou seest this day.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  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 `at' this day;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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 (1901)

  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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples– as is apparent today.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 4:37 : 37 And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
• Deut 7:7-8 : 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
• Rom 9:13-23 : 13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth. 18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens. 19 You will say then to me, Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will? 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me like this? 21 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? 22 What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction: 23 And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
• Num 14:8 : 8 If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.