Deuteronomy 4:37

And because he loved thy fathers (cf. Genesis 15:5-7 ; Exodus 13:15-17 , etc.). Inasmuch as God had loved their fathers, the patriarchs, and had chosen them their descendants to be his people, and had delivered them out of Egypt, that he might establish them in the Promised Land, having driven out thence nations mightier than they, therefore were they to consider in their heart and acknowledge that Jehovah alone is God, and that in the wide universe there is no other. The apodosis in this sentence begins at Deuteronomy 4:39 , and not, as in the Authorized Version, at "he chose," in Deuteronomy 4:37 , nor at "brought thee," as some suggest. Because he loved thy fathers, and chose his [ i . e . Abraham's] seed after him, and brought thee , etc.,—for all this thou shalt keep his statutes , etc. In his sight ; literally, in his face , i . e . in his presence, by himself present with them; with special reference to Exodus 33:14 , where the same word is used as here. Onkelos has hero "by his Word ," and the rabbins explain it of "the angel of his presence, as it is said, Isaiah 63:9 ".