Exodus 19:5-6
5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be amy treasured possession among all peoples, for ball the earth is mine; 6and you shall be to me a ckingdom of priests and da holy nation'. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”Leviticus 20:26
26 eYou shall be holy to me, ffor I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.Deuteronomy 7:3-6
3 gYou shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 4for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. hThen the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you iquickly. 5But thus shall you deal with them: jyou shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their kpillars and chop down their lAsherim and mburn their carved images with fire.6“For nyou are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be oa people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 14:2
2For pyou are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.Deuteronomy 33:26-29
26 q“There is none like God, O rJeshurun,swho rides through the heavens to your help,
through the skies in his majesty.
27The eternal God is your tdwelling place, ▼
▼Or a dwelling place
and underneath are the everlasting arms. ▼
▼Revocalization of verse 27 yields He subdues the ancient gods, and shatters the forces of old
And he thrust out the enemy before you
and said, ‘Destroy.’
28So Israel lived in safety,
wJacob lived xalone, ▼
▼Hebrew the abode of Jacob was alone
in a land of grain and wine,
whose heavens drop down dew.
29Happy are you, O Israel! zWho is like you,
a people aasaved by the Lord,
abthe shield of your help,
and the sword of your triumph!
Your enemies shall come fawning to you,
and you shall tread upon their backs.”
Psalms 106:28
28 Then they acyoked themselves to the adBaal of Peor,and ate sacrifices offered to aethe dead;
Psalms 106:34-39
34 They did not afdestroy the peoples,agas the Lord commanded them,
35but they ahmixed with the nations
and learned to do as they did.
36They served their idols,
which became aia snare to them.
37They ajsacrificed their sons
and their daughters to akthe demons;
38they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was alpolluted with blood.
39Thus they ambecame unclean by their acts,
and anplayed the whore in their deeds.
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