⁹ He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."

¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, The people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

⁹ For Yahweh's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

⁹ Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and, behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

¹² Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

¹⁶ The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Hosts is his name.

¹⁴ For Yahweh won't reject his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

⁶² He also gave his people over to the sword, And was angry with his inheritance.

⁹ Save your people, And bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, And bear them up forever.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

⁴ Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;

⁴ For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.

¹¹ For your name's sake, Yahweh, Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

¹⁹ Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

¹³ Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."

¹⁴ He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

¹⁵ He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here.

¹⁶ For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"

¹⁷ Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."

³ to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

⁴ When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.

⁵ Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you."

⁵ Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;