Epilogue: Mutual Commitments between God and Israel

Deuteronomy 26:16–19|29:9–13

ca. 1200–332 BCE

Chapter 26

¹⁶The Lord your God commands you this day to observe these laws and rules; observe them faithfully with all your heart and soul. ¹⁷You have affirmed this day that the Lord is your God, that you will walk in His ways, that you will observe His laws and commandments and rules, and that you will obey Him. ¹⁸And the Lord has affirmed this day that you are, as He promised you, His treasured people who shall observe all His commandments, ¹⁹and that He will set you, in fame and renown and glory, high above all the nations that He has made; and that you shall be, as He promised, a holy people to the Lord your God. [ . . . ]

Chapter 29

⁹You stand this day, all of you, before the Lord your God—your tribal heads, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel, ¹⁰your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to water drawer—¹¹to enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is concluding with you this day, with its sanctions;^a ¹²to the end that He may establish you this day as His people and be your God, as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ¹³I make this covenant, with its sanctions, not with you alone, ¹⁴but both with those who are standing here with us this day before the Lord our God and with those who are not with us here this day.

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