Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
3You⌃ shall not eat any abominable thing.
Cross References
Exodus 19:5And now if you⌃ will indeed hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you⌃ shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is mine.
Leviticus 19:2Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, You⌃ shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy.
Leviticus 20:26And you⌃ shall be holy to me; because I the Lord your God am holy, who separated you from all nations, to be mine.
Deuteronomy 7:7It was not because you⌃ are more numerous than all other nations that the Lord preferred you, and the Lord made choice of you: for you⌃ are fewer in number than all other nations.
Deuteronomy 26:18And the Lord has chosen you this day that you should be to him a peculiar people, as he said, to keep his commands;
Isaiah 6:13And yet there + 6:13 Gr. is. shall be a tenth upon it, and again it shall be for a spoil, as a turpentine tree, and as an acorn when it falls out of its husk.
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 →