^{6 Ref} For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

^{7 Ref} The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

^{8 Ref} But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.