Deuteronomy 7:7-11 - The Basis Of Israel's Election

⁷ Not for your multitude did Jehovah delight in you above all the peoples, and will he choose you, for ye were few more than all the peoples. ⁸ For Jehovah loves you and watches the oath which he sware to your fathers: Jehovah brought you out by a strong hand, and he will redeem thee from the house of servants, from the house of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹ And know thou that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, watching the covenant and the kindness to those loving him, and to those watching his commands to the thousandth generation: ¹⁰ And recompensing to those hating him to their face to destroy him: he will not delay to him hating him to his face; he will recompense to him. ¹¹ And watch thou the commands and the laws and the judgments which I command thee this day, to do them.