Deuteronomy 7:5-7

English Standard Version

⁵ But thus shall you deal with them: ^(A)you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their ^(B)pillars and chop down their ^(C)Asherim and ^(D)burn their carved images with fire.

⁶ “For ^(E)you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be ^(F)a people for his treasured possession, out 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,