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From this flow all acts of chosenness in the Bible: Abel, not Cain; Abraham, not a nation; Isaac, not Ishmael; Jacob, not Esau; Israel the slaves, rather than Egypt the masters. To be sure, no one is rejected. Divine choice does not mean that God is with this person, not that; with one nation not another. God \u2013 who tells Moses that His name is \u201cI will be where I will be\u201d (Exodus 3:14) \u2013 cannot be confined to one sector of humanity. That is the point of His remarkable command to the Israelites: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDo not hate an Egyptian. You were strangers in his land.\u201d (Deuteronomy 23: 8). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God blesses Ishmael and Esau &#8211; they too will become great nations. There is nothing exclusive about the patriarchal covenant: \u201cThrough you shall all the families of the earth be blessed.\u201d But there is nonetheless an insistence on the integrity of diversity, the dignity of difference; the preciousness to God of those whom the world ignores or mistreats. God sets His image on the only creature for whom difference is a source of identity, namely man. 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