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[a]These things we have heard and know,
    for our ancestors have related them to us.
We will not conceal them from our children;
    we will relate them to the next generation,
the glorious and powerful deeds of the Lord
    and the wonders he has performed.
He instituted a decree in Jacob
    and established a law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
    to make known to their descendants,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 78:3 Israel is the people of tradition (see Deut 4:9; 32:7; Job 8:8; 15:18; Isa 38:19; Joel 1:3); what its people hand down is, above all, the remembrance of the Exodus (see Ex 10:2; 13:14) and the covenant statutes (Deut 4:9-14; 6:20-25).