Readings for Lent and Easter

⁶ For you are a holy and set-apart people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

⁷ The Lord did not set His love upon you and choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the fewest of all people.

⁸ But because the Lord loves you and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

⁹ Know, recognize, and understand therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, Who keeps covenant and steadfast love and mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations,

¹⁰ And repays those who hate Him to their face, by destroying them; He will not be slack to him who hates Him, but will requite him to his face.

¹¹ You shall therefore keep and do the instruction, laws, and precepts which I command you this day.