Deuteronomy 14:2
because you are a holy people who belong to the Lord your God. The Lord chose you as his special people out of all the nations on earth.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3You must not eat anything repulsive.
Cross References
Exodus 19:5Now if you really obey what I say and keep the agreement with me, then out of all the nations you will be a special people that belong to me. While the whole world is mine,
Leviticus 19:2“Tell all the Israelites: You must be holy because I am holy; I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 20:26You shall be holy to me because I am holy. I am the Lord, and I have made you a distinctive people different from all other nations. You belong to me.
Deuteronomy 7:7It wasn't because there were so many of you that the Lord loved you more than any other nation, in fact he chose you though there were so few of you.
Deuteronomy 26:18Today the Lord has announced that you are a special people who belong to him as he promised. He has announced that you are to keep all his commandments.
Isaiah 6:13Even though a tenth of the population remains in the land, it will be destroyed again. But in the same way as the terebinth and oak trees leave stumps when they're cut down, so the holy seed will remain as a stump.”
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 14:2-22
What Might Be Eaten, and What Not. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and… Read the whole commentary →