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For you are a holy people for Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be for him a people, a treasured possession from among all the peoples that are on the face[a] of the earth.

“Yahweh loved you and chose you not because of your great number[b] exceeding all other peoples, for you are fewer than all of the peoples, but[c] because of[d] the love of Yahweh for you and because of his keeping of the sworn oath that he swore to your ancestors,[e] Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:6 Or “surface”
  2. Deuteronomy 7:7 Literally “from your multitude/abundance”
  3. Deuteronomy 7:8 Or “for”
  4. Deuteronomy 7:8 Literally “from”
  5. Deuteronomy 7:8 Or “fathers”