⁹ Then he said, ‘My Lord, if I have indeed found favour with you, my Lord, please go with us (even though this is a stiff-necked people), forgive our iniquity and our sin, and accept us as your own possession.’^(A)

⁶ For you are a holy people^(A) belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own possession^(B) out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

¹⁴ He gave himself for us^(A) to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people for his own possession,^(B) eager to do good works.