⁶ For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own.^(A)

⁶ Therefore, keep the commandments of the Lord, your God, by walking in his ways and fearing him.

The Lord’s Majesty and Compassion. ^12 (A)Now, therefore, Israel, what does the Lord, your God, ask of you but to fear the Lord, your God, to follow in all his ways, to love and serve the Lord, your God, with your whole heart and with your whole being,^{(B) 13} to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord that I am commanding you today for your own well-being?^(C)

^22 (A)For if you are careful to observe this entire commandment I am giving you, loving the Lord, your God, following his ways exactly, and holding fast to him,

² For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own.^(A)

⁹ Moses, with the levitical priests, then said to all Israel: Be silent, Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the Lord, your God.^(A)

Chapter 28

Blessings for Obedience. ¹ Now,^(A)(B) if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord, your God, carefully observing all his commandments which I give you today, the Lord, your God, will set you high above all the nations of the earth.^(C)

⁹ The Lord will establish you as a holy people, as he swore to you,^(A) if you keep the commandments of the Lord, your God, and walk in his ways.

¹² so that he may establish you today as his people and he may be your God, as he promised you and as he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. ^13 (A)But it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant, with its curse,

⁷ I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God;^(A) and you will know that I, the Lord, am your God who has freed you from the burdens of the Egyptians