Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
New American Standard Bible
For you are
King James Version
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Holman Bible
For you are a holy people
International Standard Version
because you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God chose you to be his people, his treasured possession from all the nations on the face of the earth."
American Standard Version
For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
Amplified
For you are a holy people [set apart] to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people for His own possession [that is, His very special treasure].
Bible in Basic English
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
Darby Translation
For a holy people art thou unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be unto him a people for a possession, above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
Julia Smith Translation
For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God: in thee Jehovah thy God chose to be to him a people of property from all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth.
King James 2000
For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you [are] a holy people for Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be for him a people, a treasured possession from [among] all the peoples that [are] on the face of the earth.
Modern King James verseion
For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thou art a holy nation unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a several people unto himself of all nations that are upon the earth.
NET Bible
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
New Heart English Bible
For you are a holy people to the LORD your God: The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
The Emphasized Bible
For a holy people, art thou unto Yahweh thy God: of thee, hath Yahweh thy God, made choice, that thou shouldest become his people as a treasure, above all the peoples that are on the face of the ground:
Webster
For thou art a holy people to the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people to himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
World English Bible
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Youngs Literal Translation
for a holy people art thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ground.
Themes
Covenant » Who the lord keeps covenant with
Covenant » The lord being mindful of his covenant
Election » Of grace » Of israel
God » People of general references to » Called the "chosen ones"
Israel/jews » The lord redeeming israel
Israel/jews » The lord choosing israel
Jews, the » Described as » A holy people
Jews, the » Chosen and loved by God
Jews, the » The objects of » God's choice
Jews, the » Described as » A special people
Names » Of the saints » Chosen ones
God's People » General references to » Called the "chosen ones"
Interlinear
`am
עם
`am
Usage: 1867
'elohiym
אלהים
'elohiym
God, god, judge, GOD, goddess, great, mighty, angels, exceeding, God-ward , godly
Usage: 2600
Bachar
C@gullah
`am
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 7:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations
5 But thus shall ye deal with them: Ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. 6 For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 7 LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people, for ye were the fewest of all peoples,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:2
For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God, and LORD has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
Exodus 19:5-6
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.
Deuteronomy 26:19
and to make thee high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor, and that thou may be a holy people to LORD thy God, as he has spoken.
Jeremiah 2:3
Israel [was] holiness to LORD, the first-fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come upon them, says LORD.
1 Peter 2:9
But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Deuteronomy 28:9
LORD will establish thee for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to thee, if thou shall keep the commandments of LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
Psalm 50:5
Gather my sanctified together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Amos 3:2
You only I have known of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.
Malachi 3:17
And they shall be mine, says LORD of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own,
2 Peter 2:5
and he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, the eighth, a herald of righteousness, when he brought on a flood upon the world of the irreverent,
2 Peter 2:9
the Lord knows how to rescue the pious out of temptation, and to hold in reserve unrighteous men being cut off for a day of judgment.