⁶ Therefore say to the children of Israel: ^(A)‘I am the Lord; ^(B)I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will ^(C)rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with ^[a]an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

⁷ I will ^(A)take you as My people, and ^(B)I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out ^(C)from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

⁶ “For you are a ^[a]holy people to the Lord your God; ^(A)the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. ⁷ The Lord did not set His ^(B)love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were ^(C)the least of all peoples; ⁸ but ^(D)because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep ^(E)the oath which He swore to your fathers, ^(F)the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of ^[b]bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.