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Gain more than 170 years of biblical, historical, and theological scholarship with Bibliotheca Sacra—the official journal of Dallas Theological Seminary. Enhance your ministry, expand your theological acumen, and deepen your biblical knowledge with articles written by the most respected biblical scholars and theologians of the last century. Contributors include Philip Schaff, B. B. Warfield, S....

[sglh, an Amorite term] among all the peoples—since all the earth belongs to me—and you will be for me a royal priesthood and a holy nation” (vv. 5–6). Priests are persons devoted solely to the service of the deity.17 Israel as a nation קָדוֹשׁ is a nation given access to the presence of Yahweh and devoted solely to the service and worship of the Lord. Moreover the statements in verses 5 and 6 are double. First, the call to be a holy nation is parallel to the call to be a royal priesthood, and second,
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