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

⁷ “^(A)Yahweh did not set His affection on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸ but because Yahweh loved you and kept the ^(B)oath which He swore to your fathers, ^(C)Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of ^[a]slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

^15 (A)Yet on your fathers did Yahweh set His affection to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day.