 | Elliot N. Dorff, Arthur I. Rosett, Jewish Theological Seminary of America - 1988 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...on you and chose you — indeed, you are the smallest of peoples; but it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that...LORD your God is God, the steadfast God who keeps His gracious covenant to the thousandth generation of those who love Him and keep His commandments, but... | |
 | Alliance Professor of Modern Jewish Studies Bernard S Jackson - 1988 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...heart on you and chose you - indeed, you are the smallest of peoples; but it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that...house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of EgyptKnow, therefore, that only the Lord your GOD is GOD, the steadfast GOD who keeps His gracious... | |
 | Jon Douglas Levenson - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...you and chose you — indeed, you are the smallest of peoples; "but it was because the LORD favored you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that...bondage, from the power of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. (Deut 7:6-8) In Leviticus 25, as we have seen, it is precisely this connection of service to redemption... | |
 | Robert Eisen - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...of peoples that the LORD set His heart on you and chose you . .. but it was because the LORD favored you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that...only the LORD your God is God, the steadfast God who preserves the covenant and the good '^ to the thousandth generation of those who love Him and keep... | |
 | Reuven Hammer - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...You say that they were slaves to kings—were they not rather slaves to slaves (avadim)? When it says RESCUED YOU FROM THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE, FROM THE POWER OF PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT (Deut. 7:8) it makes it clear that they were slaves to kings and not slaves to slaves. Another interpretation:... | |
 | Mark G. Brett - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...kept the oath that he swore to your Patriarchs that YHWH took you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. (Deut. 7:7-8) Here, the choice of Israel is grounded in passion. It is telling that the verb hashaq... | |
 | Yiśakhar Shelomoh Ṭaikhṭel - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...always." 180 "And Israel is My beloved," as it is written "But it was because the Lord loved you . . . [that the Lord freed you with a mighty hand and rescued you from the house of bondage]. . . ."1 81 Said the Holy One, blessed be He: "I will bring in My beloved Israel to the Land 182 ^N... | |
 | Christine E. Hayes - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...you and chose you— indeed, you are the smallest of peoples, 8. but it was because the Lord favored you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that...bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. In theory, any other people might have been fit for selection by God to enter into the covenant and... | |
 | Mortimer J. Cohen - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 553
...of peoples. Rather, it was because God favored you and kept the oath made to your fathers that God freed you with a mighty hand and rescued you from...Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know, therefore, that only Adonai your God is God, the steadfast God who keeps a covenant faithfully to the thousandth generation... | |
 | Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...out of His keeping the oath He made to your fathers, did GOD free you with mighty power and redeem you from the house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. |9|Know, therefore, that GOD your God is the Almighty. He is the faithful God, Who keeps the covenant,... | |
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It is not because you are the most numerous of peoples that the LORD set His heart on you and chose you — indeed, you are the smallest of peoples; but it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that the LORD freed you... 
