Psalms 81:5

a witness he set up in Joseph, when he marched against Egypt’s land, where he heard an unknown voice say:

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In The King James Version

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

In Context

4For this is a statute for Israel, a ruling of the God of Jacob,

6“I removed from your shoulder the burden, and freed your hands from the basket.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:6that the next generation should know it, that the children yet to be born should arise and tell their children;

Psalms 114:1When Israel went out of Egypt, Jacob’s house from a barbarous people,

Matthew Henry on Psalms 81:2-8

An Invitation to Praise. 1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. 6 I removed his shoulder from the… Read the whole commentary →

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