[6] For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people that are upon the face of the earth. [7] The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: [8] But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. [9] Know therefore that the LORD thy God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;