Deuteronomy 7
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Deuteronomy 7:6-9

6For you are 1a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be 2a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the 3earth.

7“4The Lord did not 5make you His beloved nor choose you because you were greater in number than any of the peoples, since you were the fewest of all peoples, 8but because the Lord loved you and kept the 6oath which He swore to your forefathers, 7the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of 8slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9Know therefore that the Lord your God, 9He is God, 10the faithful God, 11who keeps 12His covenant and 13His faithfulness to a thousand generations for those who 14love Him and keep His commandments;

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Notes

  1. 1. Deuteronomy 7:6 Ex 19:6; Deut 14:2, 21; Ps 50:5; Jer 2:3 ↩
  2. 2. Deuteronomy 7:6 Ex 19:5; Deut 4:20; 14:2; 26:18; Ps 135:4; Titus 2:14; 1 Pet 2:9 ↩
  3. 3. Deuteronomy 7:6 Lit ground ↩
  4. 4. Deuteronomy 7:7 Deut 4:37 ↩
  5. 5. Deuteronomy 7:7 Or become so attached to ↩
  6. 6. Deuteronomy 7:8 Ex 32:13 ↩
  7. 7. Deuteronomy 7:8 Ex 13:3 ↩
  8. 8. Deuteronomy 7:8 Lit slaves ↩
  9. 9. Deuteronomy 7:9 Deut 4:35, 39 ↩
  10. 10. Deuteronomy 7:9 Is 49:7; 1 Cor 1:9; 1 Thess 5:24; 2 Tim 2:13 ↩
  11. 11. Deuteronomy 7:9 Ex 20:6; Dan 9:4 ↩
  12. 12. Deuteronomy 7:9 Lit the ↩
  13. 13. Deuteronomy 7:9 Lit the ↩
  14. 14. Deuteronomy 7:9 Deut 5:10 ↩

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