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you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/10-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>He is your praise and He is your God, who has done these great and awesome things for you which your eyes have seen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/10-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons <i>in all,</i> and now the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/deuteronomy/10.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/deuteronomy/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/deuteronomy/10.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him thou shalt serve, and unto him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/deuteronomy/10.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/deuteronomy/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/deuteronomy/10.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />You shall fear Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/deuteronomy/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, Him thou dost serve, and to Him thou dost cleave, and by His name thou dost swear.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_6_1860/election_and_holiness.htm">Election and Holiness</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Now, this morning it may be that some of you will not approve of what I have to say. You will remember, however, that I do not seek your approbation, that it will be sufficient for me if I have cleared my conscience concerning a grand truth and have preached the gospel faithfully. I am not accountable to you, nor you to me. You are accountable to God, if you reject a truth; I am accountable to Him if I preach an error. I am not afraid to stand before His bar with regard to the great doctrines which <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_6_1860/election_and_holiness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 6: 1860</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/book_iii_the_ascent_from.htm">Book iii. The Ascent: from the River Jordan to the Mount of Transfiguration. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">{hebrew} In every passage of Scripture where thou findest the Majesty of God, thou also findest close by His Condescension (Humility). So it is written down in the Law [Deut. x. 17, followed by verse 18], repeated in the Prophets [Is. lvii. 15], and reiterated in the Hagiographa [Ps. lxviii. 4, followed by verse 5].' - Megill 31 a. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/book_iii_the_ascent_from.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/chap_vi_vii.htm">a survey of the third and closing discourse of the prophet</a><br></span><span class="snippet">We shall now, in conclusion, give a survey of the third and closing discourse of the prophet. After an introduction in vi. 1, 2, where the mountains serve only to give greater solemnity to the scene (in the fundamental passages Deut. xxxii. 1, and in Is. 1, 2, "heaven and earth" are mentioned for the same purposes, inasmuch as they are the most venerable parts of creation; "contend with the mountains" by taking them in and applying to [Pg 522] them as hearers), the prophet reminds the people of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/chap_vi_vii.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_12_commerce.htm">Commerce</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The remarkable change which we have noticed in the views of Jewish authorities, from contempt to almost affectation of manual labour, could certainly not have been arbitrary. But as we fail to discover here any religious motive, we can only account for it on the score of altered political and social circumstances. So long as the people were, at least nominally, independent, and in possession of their own land, constant engagement in a trade would probably mark an inferior social stage, and imply <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_12_commerce.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Jewish Social Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_xxxvii_sanctification.htm">Sanctification. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">I. I will remind you of some points that have been settled in this course of study. 1. The true intent and meaning of the law of God has been, as I trust, ascertained in the lectures on moral government. Let this point if need be, be examined by reference to those lectures. 2. We have also seen, in those lectures, what is not, and what is implied in entire obedience to the moral law. 3. In those lectures, and also in the lectures on justification and repentance, it has been shown that nothing is <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_xxxvii_sanctification.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Grandison Finney—</span><span class="citation2">Systematic Theology</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xcvi_parable_of_the_importunate.htm">Parable of the Importunate Widow. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">^C Luke XVIII. 1-8. ^c 1 And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2 saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, and regarded not man [an utterly abandoned character]: 3 and there was a widow in that city; and she came oft unto him, saying, Avenge me of [rather, Do justice to me as to] mine adversary. [In Scripture language widowhood is symbolic of defenselessness (Ex. xxii. 22-24; Deut. x. 18; xxvii. 19; Mal. iii. 5; Mark xii. 40), <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xcvi_parable_of_the_importunate.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. W. McGarvey—</span><span class="citation2">The Four-Fold Gospel</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_iii_covenanting_a_duty.htm">Covenanting a Duty. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The exercise of Covenanting with God is enjoined by Him as the Supreme Moral Governor of all. That his Covenant should be acceded to, by men in every age and condition, is ordained as a law, sanctioned by his high authority,--recorded in his law of perpetual moral obligation on men, as a statute decreed by him, and in virtue of his underived sovereignty, promulgated by his command. "He hath commanded his covenant for ever."[171] The exercise is inculcated according to the will of God, as King and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_iii_covenanting_a_duty.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Cunningham—</span><span class="citation2">The Ordinance of Covenanting</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/with_christ_in_the_school_of_prayer/thirtieth_lesson_an_holy_priesthood.htm">Thirtieth Lesson. An Holy Priesthood;'</a><br></span><span class="snippet">An holy priesthood;' Or, The Ministry of Intercession. An holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.'--I Peter ii. 5. Ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord.'--Isaiah lxi. 6. THE Spirit of the Lord God is upon me: because the Lord hath anointed me.' These are the words of Jesus in Isaiah. As the fruit of His work all redeemed ones are priests, fellow-partakers with Him of His anointing with the Spirit as High Priest. Like the precious ointment upon <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/with_christ_in_the_school_of_prayer/thirtieth_lesson_an_holy_priesthood.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">With Christ in the School of Prayer</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_v_covenanting_confers_obligation.htm">Covenanting Confers Obligation. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">As it has been shown that all duty, and that alone, ought to be vowed to God in covenant, it is manifest that what is lawfully engaged to in swearing by the name of God is enjoined in the moral law, and, because of the authority of that law, ought to be performed as a duty. But it is now to be proved that what is promised to God by vow or oath, ought to be performed also because of the act of Covenanting. The performance of that exercise is commanded, and the same law which enjoins that the duties <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_v_covenanting_confers_obligation.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Cunningham—</span><span class="citation2">The Ordinance of Covenanting</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_7_kadesh_rekam_and.htm">Kadesh. Rekam, and that Double. Inquiry is Made, Whether the Doubling it in the Maps is Well Done. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near it. In the Chaldee, it is 'Rekam': in the Syriac, 'Rekem': in the Arabic, 'Rakim'... There are two places noted by the name Rekam in the very bounds of the land,--to wit, the southern and eastern: that is, a double Kadesh. I. Of Kadesh, or Rekam, in the south part, there is no doubt. II. Of it, in the eastern part, there is this mention: "From Rekam to the east, and Rekam is as the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_7_kadesh_rekam_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_beatitudes_an_exposition_of_matthew_51-12/an_appendix_to_the_beatitudes.htm">An Appendix to the Beatitudes</a><br></span><span class="snippet">His commandments are not grievous 1 John 5:3 You have seen what Christ calls for poverty of spirit, pureness of heart, meekness, mercifulness, cheerfulness in suffering persecution, etc. Now that none may hesitate or be troubled at these commands of Christ, I thought good (as a closure to the former discourse) to take off the surmises and prejudices in men's spirits by this sweet, mollifying Scripture, His commandments are not grievous.' The censuring world objects against religion that it is difficult <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_beatitudes_an_exposition_of_matthew_51-12/an_appendix_to_the_beatitudes.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/10-20.htm">Deuteronomy 10:20 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/10-20.htm">Deuteronomy 10:20 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/deuteronomy/10-20.htm">Deuteronomy 10:20 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/10-20.htm">Deuteronomy 10:20 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/10-20.htm">Deuteronomy 10:20 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/deuteronomy/10-20.htm">Deuteronomy 10:20 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/deuteronomy/10-20.htm">Deuteronomy 10:20 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/10-19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Deuteronomy 10:19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 10:19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../deuteronomy/10-21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Deuteronomy 10:21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 10:21" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/deuteronomy/10-20.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>