20 But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the ^wiron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own ^xinheritance, as you are this day.

6 ^r“For you are a people ^sholy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has ^tchosen you to be ^ua people for his treasured possession, ^vout of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the Lord ^wloves you and is keeping ^xthe oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the ^yfaithful God who ^zkeeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10 and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. 11 You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.