Deuteronomy 10:14

Creation God's power and sovereignty

¹² And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

¹³ and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?

Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.

¹⁵ Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

¹⁶ Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
KJV: Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
WEB: Behold, to the LORD your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.
ASV: Behold, unto Jehovah thy God belongeth heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
DARBY: Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to Jehovah thy God; the earth and all that is therein.
BLB: Behold, unto YHWH your God [are] the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all that [is] in it.

ÅB: Se, Herren din Gud hører himlene til og himlenes himler, jorden og alt det som er på den.
OTB: Himmelen, ja, de høyeste himler, jorden og alt som er i den, tilhører Herren din Gud.
B1930: Se, Herren din Gud hører himlene til og himlenes himler, jorden og alt det som er på den.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Exodus 19:5
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
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Psalms 24:1
The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
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Psalms 115:16
The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
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Nehemiah 9:6
You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.
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1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
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Psalms 148:4
Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.
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Jeremiah 27:5–6
By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
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Exodus 9:29
Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.
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