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Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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Blow the trumpet in the new moon, at the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
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For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
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This He ordained in Joseph as a testimony, when He went out through the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I understood not:
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"I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots.
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Thou called in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder. I tested thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah
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Hear, O My people, and I will testify unto thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto Me!
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There shall be no strange god among thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
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I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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"But My people would not hearken to My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.
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So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and they walked in their own counsels.