²⁰ But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

⁵¹ For they are your people and your heritage, which you took out of Egypt, out of the iron fireplace;

⁴ To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:

²⁹ But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.

⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

⁹ For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.

⁵ If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:

⁶ And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

¹⁸ And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

¹⁷ O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

¹⁸ Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

⁴ For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.

¹² Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

⁹ Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.

²⁶ And I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God, do not send destruction on your people and your heritage, to whom, by your great power, you have given salvation, whom you have taken out of Egypt by the strength of your hand.