Study it in the app“but because of YHWH’s love for you, and because he kept the oath that he swore to your fathers, YHWH brought you out with a strong hand and ransomed you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.”
God chose Israel, the smallest of peoples, only out of loveLove
butכִּיbecause of YHWH’s loveמֵאַהֲבַת יְהוָהfor you,אֶתְכֶםand because he keptוּמִשָּׁמְרוּthe oathאֶת הַשְּׁבֻעָהthatאֲשֶׁרhe sworeנִשְׁבַּעto your fathers,לַאֲבֹתֵיכֶםYHWHיְהוָהbrought you outהוֹצִיא אֶתְכֶםwith a strongחֲזָקָהhandבְּיָדand ransomed youוַיִּפְדְּךָfrom the houseמִבֵּיתof slaves,עֲבָדִיםfrom the handמִיַּדof Pharaohפַּרְעֹהkingמֶלֶךְof Egypt.מִצְרָיִם
love
Love: the affection that joins one person to another; also the love of YHWH for his people.
Where else “ahavat” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearskeep
To obey the covenant or the commands.
Where else “shamr” appearsoath
Oath: a solemn promise sworn in someone's name.
Where else “shevua” appearsswear
To promise with God as witness.
Where else “nishba” appearsforefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appearsbring out
To lead someone out: "I led you out of Egypt".
Where else “hotsi” appearsstrong
Of great power or intensity: a hand, a wind or a famine no one can withstand.
Where else “chazaka” appearspower
Literally "the hand": the strength and control someone has.
Where else “yad” appearsredeem
To set someone free from slavery or danger, as God did with Israel.
Where else “yifd” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bet” appearsslave
A person who belongs to a master and works for him, without freedom of his own.
Where else “avadim” appearsPharaoh
Pharaoh: the title of the kings of Egypt, not a personal name.
Where else “paro” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appearsEgypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
7It was not because you were more numerous than all the peoples that YHWH set his affection on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all the peoples;
8 · This verse (above)
9Know that YHWH your Elohim, he is Elohim, the faithful El, who keeps the covenant and the loyal love for those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
