Deuteronomy 9:29
Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm. Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
The verse declares Israel to be God's own people and inheritance, brought out of Egypt by His great power and outstretched arm. Moses prayed these words to plead that God would not destroy them after they refused to enter Canaan. His argument was that God had done much for them and had borne long with them, and therefore should show mercy rather than abandon them. The plea was offered while he was interceding for their sin during his second forty days and forty nights on Mount Sinai, a period lasting as long as the first.
The verse stands in the account of his going up into the mount to receive a second copy of God's law on tables of stone after he had broken the first tables over the worship of the golden calf. The deliverance from Egypt displays God's redeeming love and power. It serves as a type of the greater deliverance of God's people from sin, for the power that redeems is the same power that creates, sanctifies, and saves. Its setting shows that the Sabbath with the other nine commandments was once publicly proclaimed by God's voice from Sinai and twice written by God's finger, then brought down from the mount and placed beneath the mercy-seat in the ark. The whole work of atonement and sin-offering in the earthly sanctuary related to that law of which the Sabbath is one-tenth part.