Nehemiah 9:7-9

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⁷ “You are the ·Lord,
    the God [or Lord God,] who chose Abram
and brought him ·out of [forth from] Ur ·in Babylonia [^Lof the Chaldeans; Gen. 12:1–3]
    and named [^Crenamed] him Abraham [Gen. 17:5].
⁸ You found ·him [^Lhis heart] faithful to you,
    so you made an ·agreement [covenant; treaty] with him
to give his ·descendants [^Lseed] the land of the Canaanites,
    Hittites, Amorites,
    Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites.
You have ·kept [fulfilled] your ·promise [word],
    because you ·do what is right [are righteous].

⁹ “You saw our ·ancestors [fathers] ·suffering [miserable; afflicted; in distress] in Egypt
    and heard them cry out ·at [beside] the ·Red Sea [^LSea of Reeds; Ex. 14–15].