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Exodus 19:6

for me you will be a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.’ This is what you are to tell the Israelites.”

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In The King James Version

And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

In Context

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,

7So Moses went back down and summoned the elders of the people, and presented to them everything the Lord had ordered him to say.

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Cross References

Exodus 28:36Make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it like a seal, “Holy to the Lord.”

Leviticus 11:45I am the Lord who led you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. So be holy, because I am holy.

Leviticus 20:24But I have promised you that you will take over their land. I'm going to give it to you to own, a land that flows with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who has made you a distinctive people different from all others.

Leviticus 21:7A priest is not to marry a woman made unclean through prostitution or who is divorced by her husband, for the priest must be holy to his God.

Numbers 16:3They joined together in opposition to Moses and Aaron, telling them, “You've taken too much power for yourselves! Every one of the Israelites is holy, and the Lord is among them. So why do you set yourselves above the Lord's assembly?”

Deuteronomy 14:21You must not eat any animal that dies. You can give it to a foreigner in your town, and they can eat it, or you can sell it to a foreigner. You, however, are a holy people who belong to the Lord your God. Don't cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 19:2-9

The Covenant of Sinai. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. 3 And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4 Ye have seen… Read the whole commentary →

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