² for you are a people holy^(A) to the Lord your God.^(B) Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.^(C)

⁸ Your servant is here among the people you have chosen,^(A) a great people, too numerous to count or number.^(B)

⁵ and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose^(A) Israel, I swore with uplifted hand^(B) to the descendants of Jacob and revealed myself to them in Egypt. With uplifted hand I said to them, “I am the Lord your God.^(C)”