15 Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
Deuteronomy 10:15
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Deuteronomy 4:36–38
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1 Kings 8:52–54
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Deuteronomy 32:8–10
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