But the Lord's portion is his people,
    Jacob his allotted heritage.

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16 Not like these is he who is (A)the portion of Jacob,
    for he is the one who formed all things,
(B)and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance;
    (C)the Lord of hosts is his name.

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But you are (A)a chosen race, (B)a royal (C)priesthood, (D)a holy nation, (E)a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you (F)out of darkness into (G)his marvelous light. 10 (H)Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be (A)my treasured possession among all peoples, for (B)all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a (C)kingdom of priests and (D)a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

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19 Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob,
    for he is the one who formed all things,
and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance;
    the Lord of hosts is his name.

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21     the people whom I formed for myself
(A)that they might declare my praise.

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53 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, (A)as you declared through Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.”

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51 ((A)for they are your people, and your heritage, which you brought out of Egypt, (B)from the midst of the iron furnace).

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Saul Anointed King

10 (A)Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head (B)and kissed him and said, “Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince[a] over (C)his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince[b] over his heritage.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 10:1 Or leader
  2. 1 Samuel 10:1 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks over his people Israel? And you shall…. to be prince

18 (A)having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is (B)the hope to which he has called you, what are (C)the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

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Therefore you will have none (A)to cast the line by lot
    in the assembly of the Lord.

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For the Lord has (A)chosen Jacob for himself,
    Israel as his (B)own possession.

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71 from (A)following the nursing ewes he brought him
    to (B)shepherd Jacob his people,
    Israel his (C)inheritance.

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18 And the Lord has declared today that you are (A)a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments, 19 and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor (B)high above all nations (C)that he has made, and that you shall be (D)a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.”

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16 Terror and (A)dread fall upon them;
    because of the greatness of your arm, they are still (B)as a stone,
till your people, O Lord, pass by,
    till the people pass by whom (C)you have purchased.

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