Apple of Eye

Meaning

God keeps Jacob as the apple of his eye. Jacob keeps God’s law as the apple of his eye.

Detailed Explanation

Deuteronomy 32:9-10

9 For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Proverbs 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.