⁹ And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

¹⁴ For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

⁹ Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

⁹ For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

¹⁶ The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name.

⁴ For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

¹³ Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

¹⁴ And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

¹⁵ And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.

¹⁶ For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

¹⁷ And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

⁹ And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

⁶² He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.