Now therefore, if you will listen to obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.

And you shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak unto the children of Israel.

You are the children of Jehovah your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and I called My Son out of Egypt.

who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the service of God, and the promises;

And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

to the gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are registered in Heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made complete,

Of His own purpose He brought us forth by the Word of Truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.