Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants ,.... The covenant he made with them, the promise he had made unto them, with an oath annexed to it:

to whom thou swarest by thine own self ; which he did, because he could swear by no greater; and for the confirmation of his covenant and promise, see Genesis 22:16 .

and saidst unto them ; for what was said to Abraham was repeated and confirmed to Isaac and Jacob:

I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven ; multitudes of which are out of sight, and cannot be seen with the naked eye, nor numbered:

and all this land that I have spoken of ; the land of Canaan, then inhabited by several nations:

will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever ; as long as they are a people, a body politic, and especially while obedient to the divine will; but should they be now cut off, this promise would become of no effect: this is the great argument Moses makes use of, and the most forcible one.