“For (A)you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be (B)a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but (C)it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping (D)the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, (E)the faithful God (F)who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10 and (G)repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. (H)He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. 11 (I)You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.

12 (J)“And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you (K)the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. 13 He will (L)love you, bless you, and multiply you. (M)He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.

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For you are a people holy(A) to the Lord your God.(B) The Lord your God has chosen(C) you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.(D)

The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous(E) than other peoples, for you were the fewest(F) of all peoples.(G) But it was because the Lord loved(H) you and kept the oath he swore(I) to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand(J) and redeemed(K) you from the land of slavery,(L) from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God;(M) he is the faithful God,(N) keeping his covenant of love(O) to a thousand generations(P) of those who love him and keep his commandments.(Q) 10 But

those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction;
    he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.(R)

11 Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.

12 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.(S) 13 He will love you and bless you(T) and increase your numbers.(U) He will bless the fruit of your womb,(V) the crops of your land—your grain, new wine(W) and olive oil(X)—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.(Y)

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