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.+

3 Israel was something holy* to Jehovah,+ the first yield to Him.”’*+ ‘Any persons devouring him would make themselves guilty.+ Calamity itself would come upon them,’ was the utterance of Jehovah.”+

8 “‘And I came passing along by you and got to see you, and, look! your time was the time for love’s expressions.+ So I proceeded to spread my skirt over you+ and to cover your nudeness and to make a sworn statement to you and enter into a covenant with you,’+ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, ‘and so you became mine.+