^{7 Ref} The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

^{8 Ref} But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

^{9 Ref} Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;