Deuteronomy 7:5-7

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁵ But thus you shall do to them: ^(A)you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their ^[a]Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. ⁶ For you are ^(B)a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be ^(C)a people for His ^[b]own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ^[c]earth.

⁷ “^(D)The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,