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Exodus 19:5

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:

KJV

Si ergo audieritis vocem meam, et custodieritis pactum meum, eritis mihi in peculium de cunctis populis : mea est enim omnis terra :

Vulgate

καὶ νῦν ἐὰν ἀκοῇ ἀκούσητε τῆς ἐμῆς φωνῆς καὶ φυλάξητε τὴν διαθήκην μου, ἔσεσθέ μοι λαὸς περιούσιος ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν· ἐμὴ γάρ ἐστιν πᾶσα ἡ γῆ,

LXX

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:

ASV

וְ/עַתָּ֗ה אִם שָׁמ֤וֹעַ תִּשְׁמְעוּ֙ בְּ/קֹלִ֔/י וּ/שְׁמַרְתֶּ֖ם אֶת בְּרִיתִ֑/י וִ/הְיִ֨יתֶם לִ֤/י סְגֻלָּה֙ מִ/כָּל הָ֣/עַמִּ֔ים כִּי לִ֖/י כָּל הָ/אָֽרֶץ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
י
y
noun · 280×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
סְגֻלָּ֔ה
sglh
noun · 8×
עַתָּ֗ה
'th
adverb · 433×
ק֣וֹל
qvl
noun · 503×
שִׁמְעוּ
shm'v
verb · 1157×
שֹׁמְרֵ֥י
shmry
verb · 467×

Themes

Prophecy

Typology

Covenant

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§709The Law, the sign of God's promise and covenant, ought to have governed the hearts and institutions of that people to whom Abraham's faith gave birth. "If you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, . . . you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation."75 But after David, Israel gave in to the temptation of becoming a kingdom like other nations. the Kingdom, however…
§762The remote preparation for this gathering together of the People of God begins when he calls Abraham and promises that he will become the father of a great people.157 Its immediate preparation begins with Israel's election as the People of God. By this election, Israel is to be the sign of the future gathering of All nations.158 But the prophets accuse Israel of breaking the co…
§2810In the promise to Abraham and the oath that accompanied it,71 God commits himself but without disclosing his name. He begins to reveal it to Moses and makes it known clearly before the eyes of the whole people when he saves them from the Egyptians: "he has triumphed gloriously."72 From the covenant of Sinai onwards, this people is "his own" and it is to be a "holy (or "consecra…
§66There is no doubt that Christian moral teaching, even in its Biblical roots, acknowledges the specific importance of a fundamental choice which qualifies the moral life and engages freedom on a radical level before God. It is a question of the decision of faith, of the obedience of faith (cf. Rom 16:26) "by which man makes a total and free self-commitment to God, offering 'the …
In carefully planning and preparing the salvation of the whole human race the God of infinite love, by a special dispensation, chose for Himself a people to whom He would entrust His promises. First He entered into a covenant with Abraham and, through Moses, with the people of Israel. To this people which He had acquired for Himself, He so manifested Himself through words and d…

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 16:13 — O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
  • 1Chr 17:22 — For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
  • 1Cor 10:26 — For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.
  • 1Cor 10:26 — For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.
  • 1Cor 10:28 — But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:
  • 1Kgs 3:8 — And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
  • 1Kgs 8:53 — For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD Go
  • 1Kgs 8:53 — For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD Go
  • 1Pet 2:9 — But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
  • 1Sam 15:22 — And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
  • 1Sam 15:22 — And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
  • 2Chr 5:10 — There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
  • 2Chr 8:9 — But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
  • 2Sam 23:3 — The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
  • Acts 27:23 — For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
  • Amos 3:2 — You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
  • Amos 6:1 — Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
  • Dan 4:34 — And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever,
  • Deut 4:13 — And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
  • Deut 4:20 — But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
  • Deut 4:20 — But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
  • Deut 5:2 — The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
  • Deut 5:2 — The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
  • Deut 7:6 — 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.
  • Deut 7:6 — 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.
  • Deut 10:14 — Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
  • Deut 10:14 — Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
  • Deut 11:27 — A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
  • Deut 14:2 — For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
  • Deut 14:2 — For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
  • Deut 14:21 — Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto
  • Deut 26:18 — And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
  • Deut 26:18 — And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
  • Deut 28:1 — And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set
  • Deut 28:9 — The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
  • Deut 32:8 — When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
  • Deut 32:9 — For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
  • Deut 33:3 — Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
  • Exod 4:22 — And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
  • Exod 6:7 — And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.