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Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.
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Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.
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Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:
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For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
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He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.
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I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.
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You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)
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Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!
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There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.
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I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.
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But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.