Deuteronomy 6:25

it shall be righteousness unto us The thought of the previous verse shows that righteousness here does not mean goodness, uprightness, but rather justification, vindication, the right to live, and by consequence their life itself. Cf. the post-exilic Isaiah 61:11; Isaiah 62:1-2, in which righteousness is parallel to renown, to salvationand to glory. (See the present writer's Isaiahxl. lxvi. 217 ff.) Contrast Deuteronomy 25:13.

before Jehovah our God Cp. Deuteronomy 24:13, where this phrase (thy God) follows immediately on righteousness unto thee. That may, as some suggest, have been the order here, too, but the transposition is not necessary. -To fulfil the commandment before Jehovah means so to fulfil it that He sees it, and that is a speaking feature of legal piety (Nehemiah 5:19; Nehemiah 13:14; Nehemiah 13:22; Nehemiah 13:31)" (Bertholet).