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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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Footnotes

  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 Call to Obey the Lord’s Commands

16 “Today the Lord your God has commanded you to obey all these decrees and regulations. So be careful to obey them wholeheartedly. 17 You have declared today that the Lord is your God. And you have promised to walk in his ways, and to obey his decrees, commands, and regulations, and to do everything he tells you. 18 The Lord has declared today that you are his people, his own special treasure, just as he promised, and that you must obey all his commands. 19 And if you do, he will set you high above all the other nations he has made. Then you will receive praise, honor, and renown. You will be a nation that is holy to the Lord your God, just as he promised.”

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