Catholic Public Domain Version
"It is not because you surpass all the nations in number that the Lord has joined with you and has chosen you, for you are the least numerous of any people. "
— Deuteronomy 7:7, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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:”
“Jehovah 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 peoples: ”
“Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:”
“The Basis of Israel’s Election It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the LORD favored and chose you– for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.”
“Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people:”
“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:”
“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:”
For she will seduce your son, so that he will not follow me, and so that he will instead serve foreign gods. And the fury of the Lord will be enraged, and he will quickly destroy you.
So instead, you shall do this to them: overturn their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves, and burn up their graven images.
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you so that you would be his particular people out of all the peoples who are upon the earth.
It is not because you surpass all the nations in number that the Lord has joined with you and has chosen you, for you are the least numerous of any people.
But it is because the Lord has loved you, and has kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers. And he has led you away with a strong hand, and he has redeemed you from the house of servitude, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
And you shall know that the Lord your God himself is a strong and faithful God, preserving his covenant and his mercy for those who love him and those who keep his precepts for a thousand generations,
and promptly repaying those who hate him, so as to utterly ruin them, without further delay, quickly rendering to them what they deserve.