Now, if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own people. The whole earth is mine, but you will be my chosen people,

a people dedicated to me alone, and you will serve me as priests."

"I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.

I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever, and I will be their God."

But you are the people he rescued from Egypt, that blazing furnace. He brought you out to make you his own people, as you are today.

Do this because you belong to the LORD your God. From all the peoples on earth he chose you to be his own special people.

You belong to the LORD your God; he has chosen you to be his own people from among all the peoples who live on earth.

Today the LORD has accepted you as his own people, as he promised you; and he commands you to obey all his laws.

There is no other nation on earth like Israel, whom you rescued from slavery to make them your own people. The great and wonderful things you did for them have spread your fame throughout the world. You drove out other nations and their gods as your people advanced, the people whom you set free from Egypt to be your own.

You have made Israel your own people forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.

The new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

The people of Israel will become like the sand of the sea, more than can be counted or measured. Now God says to them, "You are not my people," but the day is coming when he will say to them, "You are the children of the living God!"

At one time you were not God's people, but now you are his people; at one time you did not know God's mercy, but now you have received his mercy.

I will live among the people of Israel, and I will be their God.

They will know that I am the LORD their God who brought them out of Egypt so that I could live among them. I am the LORD their God.

so that the LORD may now confirm you as his people and be your God, as he promised you and your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And I will test the third that survives and will purify them as silver is purified by fire. I will test them as gold is tested. Then they will pray to me, and I will answer them. I will tell them that they are my people, and they will confess that I am their God."

'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' He is the God of the living, not of the dead."

In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Instead, it was a better country they longed for, the heavenly country. And so God is not ashamed for them to call him their God, because he has prepared a city for them.

I heard a loud voice speaking from the throne: "Now God's home is with people! He will live with them, and they shall be his people. God himself will be with them, and he will be their God.

Those who win the victory will receive this from me: I will be their God, and they will be my children.

The king said to Moses and Aaron, "What do you mean by making the people neglect their work? Get those slaves back to work!

You people have become more numerous than the Egyptians. And now you want to stop working!"

"I took the burdens off your backs; I let you put down your loads of bricks.