“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 26 contains 19 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.