"but because the LORD loved you"
Deuteronomy 7:8 God promised that He would love the Hebrews no matter what
Deuteronomy 7:7-8
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.
