¹¹ I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.^(A)

Salvation Is for All

⁵ Moses writes concerning the righteousness that comes from the law, that “the person who does these things will live by them.”^(A)

⁸ And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?

⁵ You shall keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one shall live: I am the Lord.^(A)

¹² But the law does not rest on faith; on the contrary, “Whoever does the works of the law^[a] will live by them.”^(A)

²⁸ And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”^(A)

¹³ But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not observe my statutes but rejected my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live, and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.

Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make an end of them.^(A)

¹³ You came down also upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,^{(A) 14} and you made known your holy Sabbath to them and gave them commandments and statutes and a law through Moses your servant.^(B)

² Much, in every way. For in the first place, the Jews^[a] were entrusted with the oracles of God.^(A)