Deuteronomy 10:13

לִשְׁמֹר אֶת־מִצְוֹת יְהוָה וְאֶת־חֻקֹּתָיו אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ הַיּוֹם לְטוֹב לָֽךְ׃

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✦ The same verse in five languages

Hebrew

לִשְׁמֹ֞ר אֶת־מִצְוֹ֤ת יְהוָה֙ וְאֶת־חֻקֹּתָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י מְצַוְּךָ֖ הַיּ֑וֹם לְט֖וֹב לָֽךְ׃

Greek (Septuagint)

φυλάσσεθαι τὰς ἐντολὰς κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ σου καὶ τὰ δικαιώματα αὐτοῦ, ὅσα ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαί σοι σήμερον, ἵνα εὖ σοι ᾖ ;

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

custodiasque mandata Domini, et cæremonias ejus, quas ego hodie præcipio tibi, ut bene sit tibi?

Spanish

que guardes los mandamientos y los estatutos del Señor que hoy te ordeno para tu bien?

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Que guardes los mandamientos de Jehová y sus estatutos, que yo te prescribo hoy, para que hayas bien?

English

and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?

✦ What the text says

Summary

This verse continues a rhetorical question begun earlier in the chapter, describing what is asked of the addressee: to keep the commandments and statutes of Yehovah, which are being commanded "this day," stated as being for the addressee's own good.

Key words

sh.Mor ("to keep", H8104G) — qal infinitive, expressing the action required, syntactically dependent on a governing verb from the previous clause (not shown here).
mitzvot ("commandments of", H4687) — feminine plural construct noun, grammatically bound to the following name Yehovah, forming "commandments of Yehovah."
chukotav ("his statutes", H2708 + H9023) — feminine plural construct noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix "his," referring back to Yehovah.
'anokhi ("I", H0595) — independent personal pronoun placed before the participle, adding emphasis to the subject of the commanding action.
metzave ("commanding", H6680) — piel participle, portraying the act of commanding as an ongoing or characteristic action rather than a single past event.

What the text says

The clause is built around two infinitives, shamor ("to keep", H8104G) and tov ("good", H2896B, functioning here as an infinitive "to be well"), both governed by the preposition le- ("for/to", H9005). This preposition pattern shows purpose or result: the action of keeping leads toward the outcome expressed by "for good to you." The object of "keeping" is doubled by the object marker 'et (H0853, untranslated) appearing twice — once before mitzvot ("commandments of", H4687) and once before chukotav ("his statutes", H2708) — marking both nouns as direct objects of the same verb.

The relative clause 'asher 'anokhi metzavekha hayom ("which I am commanding you today") modifies the statutes just named. The independent pronoun 'anokhi (H0595) is not grammatically required, since the participle metzave (H6680) already carries person through its form and suffix -kha ("you", H9031); its presence adds emphasis to the speaker. The piel participle form of metzave itself signals an intensified or repeated act of commanding, distinct from a simple qal form.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders Yehovah (H3068G) as κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ σου ("Lord your God"), adding a possessive element ("your God") not present in the Hebrew, which has only the name Yehovah without a suffix at this point. The Vulgate uses Domini ("of the Lord"), matching the Hebrew's single title without addition. For chukotav ("his statutes", H2708 + H9023), the LXX uses δικαιώματα ("statutes/judgments") while the Vulgate uses caeremonias ("ceremonies"), a narrower rendering than the Hebrew noun, which denotes statutes generally rather than specifically ceremonial ones.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.