A moment in scripture
Psalms 81:4
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For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 81:2
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
- Psalms 81:3
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
- Psalms 81:5
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.
- Psalms 81:6
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.