Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 4:37 in context
Deuteronomy 4:34–40
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Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
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It was shown to you so that you might know that the LORD is God. There is no one else besides him.
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Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.
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Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
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to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
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Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that the LORD himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
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You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God gives you for all time.
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