² Then I will make my covenant between me and you^(A) and will greatly increase your numbers.”^(B)

¹³ He declared to you his covenant,^(A) the Ten Commandments,^(B) which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.

²⁵ And you are heirs^(A) of the prophets and of the covenant^(B) God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.’^[a](C)

¹² remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners^(A) to the covenants of the promise,^(B) without hope^(C) and without God in the world.