For you are a holy people(A) belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be His own possession(B) out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

“The Lord was devoted to you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But because the Lord loved(C) you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed(D) you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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15 Yet the Lord was devoted to your fathers and loved them.(A) He chose their descendants after them—He chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.

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Yet the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but He turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves(A) you.(B)

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Indeed He loves the people.[a](A)
All Your[b] holy ones[c] are in Your hand,
and they assemble[d] at Your feet.
Each receives Your words.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:3 Or peoples
  2. Deuteronomy 33:3 Lit His, or its
  3. Deuteronomy 33:3 Either the saints of Israel or angels
  4. Deuteronomy 33:3 Hb obscure

the Lord appeared to him[a] from far away.
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore, I have continued to extend faithful love to you.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:3 LXX; MT reads me

The Lord’s Love for Israel

11 When Israel was a child, I loved him,(A)
and out of Egypt I called My son.(B)

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“I have loved you,”(A) says the Lord.

But you ask: “How have You loved us?”

“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?”(B) This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob,

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