For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
- BSB For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
- NKJV For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His special treasure.
- NASB For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel as His own possession.
- NLT For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own special treasure.
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- 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- Deut 10:15Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
- Deut 7:6–7For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
- Mal 3:17They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
- Isa 43:20–21The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
- Zech 2:10–12Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.
- Ps 105:6you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
- Deut 32:9For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
- 1 Sam 12:22For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
- Isa 41:8“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
- Ps 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
- Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
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