Exodus 19:5

Translations

Modern

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

Traditional

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

Literal

And now if you will listen carefully to My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be to Me a treasured possession from among all the peoples—for all the earth belongs to Me.

Latin

Si ergo audieritis vocem meam, et custodieritis pactum meum, eritis mihi in peculium de cunctis populis: mea est enim omnis terra:

Original

Hebrew

English

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

Notes

Exodus 19:5–6

God, who owns all the earth, promised to make Israel his treasured possession. This promise depended on their acceptance and faithful keeping of a covenant with God.
unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation: The nation was to act as intercessors between a holy God and a lost world. God would reveal himself through Israel (see 1 Peter 2:9–10).

Exodus 19:1–9

God prepared his people to receive the covenant by first reminding them of the past and of what they had learned about him (19:4). He then made promises about the future, which depended on their obedience (19:5–6). The final result was their promise to obey what the Lord has commanded (19:8).

Theme notes and profiles

Moses Biblical Law Biblical Marriage God’s Covenant with David God’s Covenants God’s Faithfulness to His People God’s New Covenant Holy War Purity and Identity The New Community The Purpose of the Sinai Covenant

Events

Ten Commandments Givenc. 1491 BC

Related verses

Deuteronomy 14:2
…for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:18
And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
Exodus 15:26
…saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
Malachi 3:17
“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Deuteronomy 10:14
Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
Psalm 135:4
For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
Exodus 23:22
But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.
Deuteronomy 4:20
Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
Titus 2:14
He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
Exodus 9:29
Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.
Psalm 24:1
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

Glossary

Biblical Concept of Law Book of Exodus Covenant Criminal Law and Punishment Destiny Deuteronomy, Book of History of Israel Hosea, Book of Inheritance John the Baptist King Leviticus, Book of Malachi, Book of Miracle Mount Sinai Mount, Mountain Obedience People of God

Topics

Blessing: Contingent Upon Obedience Compared To Saints: Treasure Contingencies in Divine Government of Man God: Love of, Exemplified God: Sovereign Government: Theocratic Israel: The Message of God to Them Miracles: Design of Moses: Prophecies of Obedience to God: Includes: Obeying his Voice Obedience: General Scriptures Concerning Righteous: Treasure Sinai: A Mountain in the Peninsula East of the Red Sea: The Law Delivered to Moses Upon The Jews: A Peculiar Treasure The Jews: Promises Respecting Made to Themselves The Jews: Under the Theocracy Until the Time of Samuel The Theocracy: or Immediate Government by God: Lasted from the Deliverance out of Egypt Until The Titles and Names of Saints: Peculiar Treasure

Exodus 19:5

Translations?

Original?

Notes?

Events?

Related verses?

Glossary?

Topics?