The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor chose you, because ye were more in number than any people: for ye were the fewest of all people:

But because the Lord [a]loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, the Lord hath brought you out by a mighty hand, and delivered you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt.

That thou mayest know, [b]that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy unto them that love him and keep his commandments, even to a thousand generations,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:8 Freely, finding no cause in you more than in others so to do.
  2. Deuteronomy 7:9 And so put difference between him and idols.

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