And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
- KJV And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
- NKJV Also today the Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments,
- NASB And the Lord has today declared you to be His people, His personal possession, just as He promised you, and that you are to keep all His commandments;
- NLT The Lord has declared today that you are his people, his own special treasure, just as he promised, and that you must obey all his commands.
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Quick answer
The Lord in turn has declared Israel His treasured possession, pledged to keep His commandments. God claims His people as uniquely His own.
Overview
Matching Israel's avowal, God affirms that they are His treasured possession, a people set apart for Himself. This reciprocal covenant bond expresses God's electing love and Israel's calling to obedience. The New Testament applies this very identity to the church, calling believers in Christ 'a people for his own possession' (1 Peter 2:9).
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- Deut 14:2for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
- Deut 28:9The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
- Deut 7:6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
- Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- Exod 6:7I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
- Ezek 36:25–27I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Rom 16:26but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith—
- Exod 19:5–6Now 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.
- Jer 31:32–34It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
- Ps 119:6Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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