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The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;
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but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
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and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.
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Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
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"Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
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And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.
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You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
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And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
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And you shall destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
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"If you should say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'--