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16 “This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and judgments. You shall therefore be careful to do them (A)with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 (B)You have today declared Yahweh to be your God, and [a]that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and listen to His voice. 18 And Yahweh has today declared you to be (C)His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and [b]that you should keep all His commandments; 19 and [c]that He will (D)set you high above all nations which He has made, for praise, a name, and beauty; and that you shall be (E)a holy people to Yahweh your God, as He has spoken.”

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 26:17 Lit to walk in
  2. Deuteronomy 26:18 Lit to keep all
  3. Deuteronomy 26:19 Lit to set you

Follow the Lord’s Commands

16 The Lord your God commands you this day to follow these decrees and laws; carefully observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.(A) 17 You have declared this day that the Lord is your God and that you will walk in obedience to him, that you will keep his decrees, commands and laws—that you will listen to him.(B) 18 And the Lord has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession(C) as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands. 19 He has declared that he will set you in praise,(D) fame and honor high above all the nations(E) he has made and that you will be a people holy(F) to the Lord your God, as he promised.

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