⁵ Now if you obey me fully^(A) and keep my covenant,^(B) then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.^(C) Although the whole earth^(D) is mine,

⁶ Moses^(A) took half of the blood^(B) and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed^(C) against the altar. ⁷ Then he took the Book of the Covenant^(D) and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.”^(E)

⁸ Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people^(F) and said, “This is the blood of the covenant^(G) that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

³¹ and in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried^(A) you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”^(B)

¹⁴ “Return,^(A) faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband.^(B) I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.

⁷ From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again,^(A) saying, “Obey me.”