7 “And I will carry out my covenant between me and you+ and your seed after you according to their generations for a covenant to time indefinite,+ to prove myself God* to you and to your seed after you.+

6 And YOU yourselves will become to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’+ These are the words that you are to say to the sons of Israel.”

8 But it was because of Jehovah’s loving YOU,+ and because of his keeping the sworn statement that he had sworn to YOUR forefathers,+ that Jehovah brought YOU out with a strong hand,+ that he might redeem you from the house of slaves,+ from the hand of Pharʹaoh the king of Egypt.

13 For when God made his promise to Abraham,+ since he could not swear by anyone greater, he swore+ by himself,