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15 Blessed the people so fortunate;
    blessed the people whose God is the Lord.(A)

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You will be to me a kingdom of priests,[a] a holy nation.(A) That is what you must tell the Israelites.

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Footnotes

  1. 19:6 Kingdom of priests: inasmuch as this phrase is parallel to “holy nation,” it most likely means that the whole Israelite nation is set apart from other nations and so consecrated to God, or holy, in the way priests are among the people (cf. Is 61:6; 1 Pt 2:5, 9).

For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own.(A)

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