² Much, in every respect. [For] in the first place, they were entrusted with the utterances of God.^(A)

^22 (A)So you will say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.

⁶ For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own.^(A)

Chapter 14

Improper Mourning Rites. ¹ You are children of the Lord, your God. You shall not gash yourselves nor shave the hair above your foreheads for the dead.^{(A) 2} For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own.^(B)