⁵ Now ^(A)therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and ^(B)keep My covenant, then ^(C)you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is ^(D)Mine.

⁶ And you shall be to Me a ^(A)kingdom of priests and a ^(B)holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

⁴ which I commanded your fathers in the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, ^(A)from the iron furnace, saying, ^(B)‘Obey My voice, and do according to all that I command you; so shall you be My people, and I will be your God,’

¹¹ For as the sash clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me,’ says the Lord, ‘that ^(A)they may become My people, ^(B)for renown, for praise, and for ^(C)glory; but they would ^(D)not hear.’