^37 (A)Because He loved your fathers, He chose ^[a]their descendants after them. And He ^[b](B)personally brought you from Egypt by His great power,

⁷ “^(A)The Lord did not ^[a]make you His beloved nor choose you because you were greater in number than any of the peoples, since you were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸ but because the Lord loved you and kept the ^(B)oath which He swore to your forefathers, ^(C)the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of ^[b]slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

^15 (A)Yet the Lord set His affection on your fathers, to love them, and He chose their ^[a]descendants after them, you over all the other peoples, as it is this day.