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Keep my commands and live,[a]
    and my teaching as the apple of your eye;

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  1. 7:2 Live: here as elsewhere (Gn 20:7; 42:18; 2 Kgs 18:32; Jer 27:12, 17; Ez 18:32), the imperative (“Live!”) is uttered against the danger of death, e.g., “Do such and such and you will live (= survive the danger); why should you die?”

Keep my commands and you will live;(A)
    guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

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