Now if you will carefully listen to me and keep my covenant,(A) you will be my own possession(B) out of all the peoples, although the whole earth is mine, and you will be my kingdom of priests and my holy nation.’(C) These are the words that you are to say to the Israelites.”

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Now if you obey me fully(A) and keep my covenant,(B) then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.(C) Although the whole earth(D) is mine, you[a] will be for me a kingdom of priests(E) and a holy nation.’(F) These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 19:6 Or possession, for the whole earth is mine. You

44 For I am the Lord your God,(A) so you must consecrate yourselves(B) and be holy because I am holy.(C) Do not defile yourselves by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground. 45 For I am the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God,(D) so you must be holy because I am holy.(E)

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44 I am the Lord your God;(A) consecrate yourselves(B) and be holy,(C) because I am holy.(D) Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground.(E) 45 I am the Lord, who brought you up out of Egypt(F) to be your God;(G) therefore be holy, because I am holy.(H)

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Oh sinful nation,
people weighed down with iniquity,(A)
brood of evildoers,(B)
depraved children!
They have abandoned(C) the Lord;
they have despised(D) the Holy One of Israel;(E)
they have turned their backs on him.

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Woe to the sinful nation,
    a people whose guilt is great,(A)
a brood of evildoers,(B)
    children given to corruption!(C)
They have forsaken(D) the Lord;
    they have spurned the Holy One(E) of Israel
    and turned their backs(F) on him.

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And one called to another:

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Armies;
his glory(A) fills the whole earth.(B)

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And they were calling to one another:

“Holy, holy(A), holy is the Lord Almighty;(B)
    the whole earth(C) is full of his glory.”(D)

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