It might surprise you that chocolate was once highly treasured.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Now then, if you will obey Me faithfully and keep My covenant, you shall be My treasured possession among all the peoples.

如今你们若忠诚于我们的约定，就在万民之中作属于我的子民。

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And the election was entirely God's initiative and is no cause for Israel to boast. So Deuteronomy 7, verses 6-8 read: For you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God: of all the peoples on earth the Lord your God chose you to be His treasured people.

而选择也完全是上帝自愿的,不该是以色列吹嘘的原因，《申命记》第7章6-8节：,因为你归耶和华你身为圣洁的民：,从地上的万民中拣选你,耶和华选你作自己的子民。

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He said the friendship between the two countries should be treasured and when the two work together, they accomplish great things.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Several miles off the Eastern Louisiana coast these barrier islands are all that stand between treasured wetland habitats and the giant oil slick adrift in the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09