5 And now if YOU will strictly obey*+ my voice and will indeed keep my covenant,+ then YOU will certainly become* my special property out of all [other] peoples,+ because the whole earth belongs to me.+

17 Between me and the sons of Israel it is a sign to time indefinite,+ because in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth and on the seventh day he rested* and proceeded to refresh himself.’”+

32 “Now ask, please, concerning the former days+ that occurred before you, from the day that God created man* on the earth+ and from one end of the heavens clear to the other end of the heavens, Was any great thing brought about like this or was anything heard like it?+

6 For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God.+ It is you Jehovah your God has chosen to become his people, a special property, out of all the peoples that are on the surface of the ground.+

2 A great deal in every way. First of all, because they were entrusted with the sacred pronouncements* of God.+