but because the Lord loved you and kept the (A)oath which He swore to your forefathers, (B)the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of [a]slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:8 Lit slaves

It is (A)not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to take possession of their land, [a]but it is because of the [b]wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and in order to confirm (B)the [c]oath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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  1. Deuteronomy 9:5 Or for
  2. Deuteronomy 9:5 Or godlessness
  3. Deuteronomy 9:5 Lit word

27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not turn Your attention to the stubbornness of this people, or to their wickedness, or their sin.

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