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you loved him, and to him alone you revealed the end of the times, secretly by night.
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You made an everlasting covenant with him, and promised him that you would never forsake his descendants; and you gave him Isaac, and to Isaac you gave Jacob and Esau.
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You set apart Jacob for yourself, but Esau you rejected; and Jacob became a great multitude.
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And when you led his descendants out of Egypt, you brought them to Mount Sinai.
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You bent down the heavens and shook the earth, and moved the world, and caused the depths to tremble, and troubled the times.
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