and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: (A)On the day when I chose Israel, (B)I swore[a] to the offspring of the house of Jacob, (C)making myself known to them in the land of Egypt; (D)I swore to them, saying, I am the Lord your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 20:5 Hebrew I lifted my hand; twice in this verse; also verses 6, 15, 23, 28, 42

14 And you shall divide equally what (A)I swore (B)to give to your fathers. (C)This land shall fall to you as your inheritance.

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23 (A)Moreover, (B)I swore to them in the wilderness (C)that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,

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15 Moreover, (A)I swore to them in the wilderness (B)that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land (C)flowing with milk and honey, (D)the most glorious of all lands,

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“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.

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Say therefore to the people of Israel, (A)‘I am the Lord, and (B)I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and (C)I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. I (D)will take you to be my people, and (E)I will be your God, and you shall know that (F)I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out (G)from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

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31 And the people (A)believed; and when they heard that the Lord had (B)visited the people of Israel and that he had (C)seen their affliction, (D)they bowed their heads and worshiped.

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and (A)I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and (B)to bring them up out of that land to a (C)good and broad land, a land (D)flowing with milk and honey, to the place of (E)the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, (A)“I have lifted my hand[a] to the Lord, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 14:22 Or I have taken a solemn oath

And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land (A)raised his right hand to heaven

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20 And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for (A)the sake of the elect, whom (B)he chose, he shortened the days.

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11 therefore, (A)as I live, declares the Lord God, I will deal with you (B)according to the anger and (C)envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And (D)I will make myself known among them, when I judge you.

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24 “Have you not observed that these people are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two clans that he chose’? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.

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Israel the Lord's Chosen

44 “But now hear, (A)O Jacob my servant,
    Israel whom I have chosen!
Thus says the Lord who made you,
    (B)who formed you from the womb and will help you:
(C)Fear not, O Jacob my servant,
    (D)Jeshurun whom I have chosen.

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10 (A)“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord,
    “and (B)my servant whom I have chosen,
that you may know and believe me
    and understand that I am he.
(C)Before me no god was formed,
    nor shall there be any after me.

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But you, Israel, (A)my servant,
    Jacob, (B)whom I have chosen,
    the offspring of Abraham, (C)my friend;
you whom I took from the ends of the earth,
    and called (D)from its farthest corners,
saying to you, “You are (E)my servant,
    (F)I have chosen you and not cast you off”;

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He made known his (A)ways to Moses,
    his (B)acts to the people of Israel.

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12 (A)Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
    the people whom he has (B)chosen as his heritage!

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40 For (A)I lift up my hand to heaven
    and swear, As I live forever,

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

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And consider today (since I am not speaking to (A)your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline[a] of the Lord your God, (B)his greatness, (C)his mighty hand and his outstretched arm, (D)his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land, and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, (E)how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day, and (F)what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place, and (G)what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel. For your eyes have seen (H)all the great work of the Lord that he did.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:2 Or instruction

37 And because (A)he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them[a] and brought you out of Egypt (B)with his own presence, by his great power,

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  1. Deuteronomy 4:37 Hebrew his offspring after him

34 Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, (A)by signs, by wonders, and (B)by war, (C)by a mighty hand and (D)an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

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(A)“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

(B)“You shall have no other gods before[a] me.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 20:3 Or besides

(A)‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how (B)I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be (C)my treasured possession among all peoples, for (D)all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a (E)kingdom of priests and (F)a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

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