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Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
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Verse 5. Possession, (peculium.) Hebrew segula, “a chosen portion or treasure.” Menochius.—Mine. I could have made choice of others. We cannot but admire the goodness of God, who asks for the free consent of the people. Hence they can have no pretence for breaking this solemn covenant. Calmet. Theod. 9. 35.
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