Readings for Lent and Easter

⁶ “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a precious people to Himself, above all people who are upon the Earth.

⁷ “The LORD did not set His love upon you or choose you because you were more in number than any people (for you were the fewest of all people)

⁸ “but because the LORD loved you and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers. The LORD has brought you out by a mighty Hand and delivered you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,

⁹ “so that you may know that the LORD your God, He is God. He is the faithful God Who keeps Covenant and mercy to those who love Him and keep His Commandments, to a thousand generations.

¹⁰ “And He rewards those who hate Him to their face, to bring them to destruction. He will not hesitate to reward him who hates Him, to his face.

¹¹ “Therefore, keep the Commandments and the Ordinances and the Laws which I command you this day, to do them.