8 But it was because of Jehovah’s loving YOU,+ and because of his keeping the sworn statement that he had sworn to YOUR forefathers,+ that Jehovah brought YOU out with a strong hand,+ that he might redeem you from the house of slaves,+ from the hand of Pharʹaoh the king of Egypt.

2 “I have loved YOU people,”+ Jehovah has said.

And YOU have said: “In what way have you loved us?”+

“Was not Eʹsau the brother of Jacob?”+ is the utterance of Jehovah. “But I loved Jacob,+