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16 “This day Yahweh your God is commanding you to do these rules and regulations, and you must observe them diligently[a] with all your heart and with all your soul.[b] 17 Yahweh you have declared today[c] to be for you as your God, and to go[d] in his ways and to observe his rules and his commandments and his regulations and to listen to his voice. 18 And Yahweh has declared you today[e] to be for him as a people, a treasured possession, as he promised[f] to you, and that you are to observe all his commandments, 19 and that he then will set you[g] high above all the nations that he has made for his praise and for fame[h] and for honor and for you to be a holy people[i] to Yahweh your God, as he promised.”[j]

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  1. Deuteronomy 26:16 Literally “and you shall observe and you shall do them”
  2. Deuteronomy 26:16 Or “inner self”
  3. Deuteronomy 26:17 Literally “the day”
  4. Deuteronomy 26:17 Or “to walk”
  5. Deuteronomy 26:18 Literally “the day”
  6. Deuteronomy 26:18 Literally “spoke”
  7. Deuteronomy 26:19 Literally “and to set you”
  8. Deuteronomy 26:19 Literally “for a name”
  9. Deuteronomy 26:19 Literally “for you to be/your being a people holy”
  10. Deuteronomy 26:19 Literally “spoke”

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. 17 Today 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. 18 Also today (C)the Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, 19 and 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.”

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  1. Deuteronomy 26:19 consecrated