⁶ For you are a people holy^(A) to the Lord your God.^(B) The Lord your God has chosen^(C) you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.^(D)

²¹ Do not eat anything you find already dead.^(A) You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God.^(B)

Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.^(C)

¹⁹ He has declared that he will set you in praise,^(A) fame and honor high above all the nations^(B) he has made and that you will be a people holy^(C) to the Lord your God, as he promised.

¹⁷ If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.