Keluaran 34:9

34:9 and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord ¹  go among us, for we ²  are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Ulangan 32:9

32:9 For the Lord’s allotment is his people,

Jacob is his special possession. ³ 

[34:9]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” two times here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[34:9]  ² tn Heb “it is.” Hebrew uses the third person masculine singular pronoun here in agreement with the noun “people.”

[32:9]  ³ tc Heb “the portion of his inheritance.” The LXX and Smr add “Israel” and BHS suggests the reconstruction: “The Lord’s allotment is Jacob, the portion of his inheritance is Israel” (cf. NAB). While providing good parallelism, it destroys a fine chiastic structure: “allotment” (a), “his people” (b), “Jacob (b’), and “inheritance” (a’).