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because it is a statute for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
He made it a statute[a] in Joseph
when he went out against the land of Egypt,
where I heard a language I did not know.[b]
“I removed his shoulder from a burden.
His hands were freed from the basket.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 81:5 Hebrew “testimony” or “witness”
  2. Psalm 81:5 The meaning of this line is uncertain. The above is based on perhaps a similar thought in Psa 114:1