Exodus 19:5

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Exodus 19:5

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Summary

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

If ye

Keep

Jeremiah 31:31

A peculiar

All the earth

1 Corinthians 10:26

General references

1 Corinthians 10:26

Bible References

If ye

If you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

He took the book of the covenant, in which Jehovah's commandments were written, and read it aloud to the people. They said: We will obey Jehovah. We will do everything that he has commanded.

Receive the blessing when you listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you today.

Carefully obey Jehovah your God. Faithfully follow all his commandments that I give you today. If you do this Jehovah your God will place you high above all the other nations in the world.

The people said to Joshua: We will serve Jehovah our God. We will obey his commands.

Samuel said: What is more pleasing to Jehovah, burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Obeying is better than sacrifice. To pay attention is better than the fat of rams.

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land.

I gave them this command: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. You will walk in all the way that I command you that it may be well with you.'

It is the covenant I made with their ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt. Egypt was like an iron smelter (furnace) to them. I told them to obey me and to do everything that I commanded. I told them that if they obeyed, they would be my people and I would be their God.

By faith, when Abraham was called, he obeyed. He went to a place that he was to receive for an inheritance. He went even though he did not know where he was going.

Keep

Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness (mercy) and truth for those who cling to his promise and written instructions.

But the loving kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting on those who reverence him, and his righteousness is to the sons of sons.

For Jehovah says: To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me. They hold fast to my covenant.

The time is coming, proclaims Jehovah, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

A peculiar

But you are Jehovah's people! He led you through fiery trials and rescued you from Egypt.

You are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be his own special people out of all the nations of the earth.

You are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Out of all the people on the face of the earth Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for His own possession.

Jehovah declared you to be his people and a treasured possession. Obey his commandments and receive his promise.

When the Most High gave nations their inheritance, when he divided the descendants of Adam, he set up borders for the tribes corresponding to the number of the sons of Israel.

You Jehovah set them apart from all the people of the world. They are your own as you promised through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.

For Jehovah has chosen Jacob for Himself and Israel for his special treasure (property).

(To Solomon) My vineyard, which is mine, is before me. You, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that tend the fruit two hundred.

However you, O Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you descendants of Abraham, my friend,

Jehovah created Jacob and formed Israel. Jehovah says: Do not be afraid for I have reclaimed you. I have called you by my name. You are mine.

Jacob's share is not like this. For he made everything! Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. Jehovah of Hosts is his name.

They will be my people, said Jehovah of Hosts. On the day when I act, they will be mine (my special treasure) (my jewels). I will show them compassion just as parents show compassion to the children who serve them.

He (Jesus Christ) gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify a people for himself, who are special people, zealous for good works.

All the earth

Moses said to him: As soon as I go out of the city, I will lift up my hands in prayer to Jehovah. The thunder will stop. There will be no more hail. Thus you may know that the earth belongs to Jehovah.

Behold, heaven and the highest heavens belong to Jehovah your God, even the earth and all that is in it.

Who has preceded me that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is mine.

([Psalm of David]) The earth and all it contains the world and those who dwell in it belong to Jehovah.

I know every bird in the mountains. Everything that moves in the fields is mine.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven and my understanding returned to me. I blessed the Most High and I praised and honored the one who lives forever. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

For the earth and that which fills it is Jehovah's. (Psalm 24:1)

General references

Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

You are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Out of all the people on the face of the earth Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for His own possession.

Judah became his holy place and Israel became his government.

Listen to the terms of the covenant. Tell the people of Judah and of Jerusalem:

For the earth and that which fills it is Jehovah's. (Psalm 24:1)