Deuteronomy 7:6-8
Read Deuteronomy 7 in full →6“For you are aa holy people to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be ba people for His 1own treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the 2earth.
7“aYahweh did not set His affection on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8but because Yahweh loved you and kept the aoath which He swore to your fathers, bYahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of 1slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.