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"For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love upon you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples;

And you shall destroy all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you, your eye shall not pity them; neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

You shall not be in dread of them; for the LORD your God is in the midst of you, a great and terrible God.

The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.

The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house, and become accursed like it; you shall utterly detest and abhor it; for it is an accursed thing.

For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills,

And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.

You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may confirm his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

"Know therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness; for you are a stubborn people.

Then the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly; they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten image.'

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure which the LORD bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened to me that time also.

And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

"So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

For they are thy people and thy heritage, whom thou didst bring out by thy great power and by thy outstretched arm.'

and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I command you this day for your good?

For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

Love the sojourner therefore; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.