"It wasn't because you were more numerous than other people of the earth that the LORD committed himself to you and chose you. In fact, you were the least numerous of all the nations.

On the contrary, it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you to confirm what the LORD promised by an oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

yet the LORD committed himself to love your ancestors and did so! He chose you their descendants after them from all the nations, as it is today.

You descendants of Abraham, his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

"But as for you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I've chosen, the offspring of my friend Abraham

"At that time," declares the LORD, "I'll be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people."

"I've loved you," says the LORD. "But you ask, "How have you loved us?'

He has shown mercy to our ancestors and remembered his holy covenant,

To the Israelis belong the patriarchs, and from them, the Messiah descended, who is God over all, the one who is forever blessed. Amen.

And brought

Then Moses told the people, "Remember this day on which you came out of Egypt, from the house of bondage, because the LORD brought you out from this place with a strong show of force. Moreover, nothing leavened is to be eaten.

In his sight

The LORD's eyes keep on roaming throughout the earth, looking for those whose hearts completely belong to him, so that he may strongly support them. But because you have acted foolishly in this, from now on you will have wars."

I will instruct you and teach you concerning the path you should walk; I will direct you with my eye.

The LORD looks on the righteous, and he listens to their cries.

With his

Or has any god ever taken for himself one nation out from another nation with testings, signs, wonders, wars, awesome power, and magnificent, terrifying deeds as the LORD your God did in Egypt before your eyes?

When Israel came out of Egypt the household of Jacob from a people of foreign speech

to the one who struck the firstborn of Egypt, for his gracious love is everlasting

"Awake! Awake! Clothe yourself with strength, you arm of the LORD! Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of long ago. Was it not you who split apart Rehob, who pierced that sea monster through?

Then they remembered the days of old, of Moses his servant. Where is the one who brought up out of the sea the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who put his Holy Spirit among them,

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yet the LORD committed himself to love your ancestors and did so! He chose you their descendants after them from all the nations, as it is today.