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Deuteronomy 26:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice. "

Deuteronomy 26:17

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15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

16 Today the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

17 You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.

18 The LORD has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.

19 He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.

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Deuteronomy 30:16

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"For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it."

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Deuteronomy 27:10

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"You shall therefore obey the LORD your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”"

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Leviticus 18:4

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"You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God."

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1 Kings 2:3

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"and keep the instruction of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn yourself."

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Jeremiah 42:21

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"I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed the LORD your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you."

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Hosea 2:23

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"I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘You are My God!’”"

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Deuteronomy 26:1

"It shall be, when you have come in to the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,"

Deuteronomy 26:2

"that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there."

Deuteronomy 26:3

"You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to the LORD your God, that I have come to the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”"

Deuteronomy 26:4

"The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the LORD your God’s altar."

Deuteronomy 26:5

"You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation."

Deuteronomy 26:6

"The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us."

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