^37 [a](A)Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose ^[b]their descendants after them. And He ^[c](B)personally brought you from Egypt by His great power,

⁸ but because the Lord loved you and kept the ^(A)oath which He swore to your forefathers, ^(B)the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of ^[a]slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

² “I have ^(A)loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I ^(B)have loved Jacob;