Deuteronomy 26:16-19

New American Standard Bible

¹⁶“This day the Lord your God commands you to perform these statutes and ordinances. Therefore you shall be careful to perform them ^(A)with all your heart and with all your soul. ¹⁷^(B)Today you have declared the Lord to be your God, and ^[a]that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His ordinances, and listen to His voice. ¹⁸And the Lord has today declared you to be ^(C)His people, His personal possession, just as He promised you, and ^[b]that you are to keep all His commandments; ¹⁹and ^[c]that He will ^(D)put you high above all the nations which He has made, for glory, fame, and honor; and that you shall be ^(E)a consecrated people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 26:17 Lit to walk in
Deuteronomy 26:18 Lit to keep all
Deuteronomy 26:19 Lit to put you

Deuteronomy 26:16-19

New King James Version

A Special People of God

¹⁶“This day the Lord your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. ¹⁷Today you have ^(A)proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will ^(B)obey His voice. ¹⁸Also today ^(C)the Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, ¹⁹and that He will set you ^(D)high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be ^(E)a ^[a]holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”