<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-size: 19px;"><i>All three examples don't require the Torah -- murder, adultery and<br>theft are among the 7 mitzvos benei Noach! So Hashem's examples had<br>nothing to do with whether or not they took His offer.</i></span><br><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span><div><span style="font-size: 19px;">So the question still remains: Why did He choose <b><u>US</u></b>?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px;">Just forty days later, we were involved in idolatry.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px;">We certainly didn't prove worthy. And the gemara says</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px;">that 80% of the Jews died in Egypt. So why Hashem</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px;">choose the Jews?? </span></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial Black"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>"How odd of G-d to pick the Jews,</b></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial Black"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>How odd of the Jews, not to refuse"</b></span></font></div></body></html>