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"“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: 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. Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, He is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations.” Deuteronomy 7:7-9 . PP 464.1"
Direct citation 100% Deuteronomy 7:7
"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:"
EGW directly quotes Deuteronomy 7:7.
Direct citation 100% Deuteronomy 7:9
"Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;"
EGW directly quotes Deuteronomy 7:9.
Direct citation 97% Deuteronomy 7:7-9
"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: 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. Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;"
Ellen White directly references Deuteronomy 7:7-9 in this passage.
"God, being governed by His judgments and walking in His ordinances, they would long before have been settled in Canaan, a prosperous, holy, happy people. Their delay to enter the goodly land dishonored God and detracted from His glory in the sight of surrounding nations. PP 464.2"
Related principle 90% Leviticus 26:3-4
"If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit."
The EGW passage discusses the blessings of obedience and the consequences of disobedience, which aligns with the theme of Leviticus 26:3-4 regarding blessings for keeping God's commandments.
Related principle 85% Numbers 14:34
"After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise."
The EGW passage discusses the delay in entering Canaan due to disobedience, which is directly related to the consequences described in Numbers 14:34, where the Israelites were punished with 40 years of wandering for their lack of faith.

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