This
very day1
the Lord your God is commanding you to observe these statutes and
ordinances; so observe them diligently with all your heart and with
all your soul. Today you have obtained the Lord’s agreement: to be
your God; and for you to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his
commandments, and his ordinances, and to obey him. Today the Lord has
obtained your agreement: to be his treasured people, as he promised
you, and to keep his commandments;2
for him to set you high above all nations that he has made, in praise
and in fame and in honor; and for you to be a people holy to the Lord
your God, as he promised.3
1
Placing them back in the “present”.
2
Third line in a row repeating “keep the commandments”.
3
The special status of Israel under God will be their fruit of
obedience.
Take-home: 15 or so chapters of law are closed with the clear agreement. God will be their God, and they will follow His commandments.
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