''For you are a people consecrated to your God of all the peoples on earth your God chose you to be God’s treasured people. It is not because you are the most numerous of peoples that God grew attached to you and chose you—indeed, you are the smallest of peoples; but it was because God favored you and kept the oath made to your fathers that God freed you with a mighty hand and rescued you from the house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.'' | ''For you are a people consecrated to your God of all the peoples on earth your God chose you to be God’s treasured people. It is not because you are the most numerous of peoples that God grew attached to you and chose you—indeed, you are the smallest of peoples; but it was because God favored you and kept the oath made to your fathers that God freed you with a mighty hand and rescued you from the house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.'' |