1 Sing merrily to God our strength, ♦︎
shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
2 Take up the song and sound the timbrel, ♦︎
the tuneful lyre with the harp.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, ♦︎
as at the full moon, upon our solemn feast day.
4 For this is a statute for Israel, ♦︎
a law of the God of Jacob,
5 The charge he laid on the people of Joseph, ♦︎
when they came out of the land of Egypt.
6 I heard a voice I did not know, that said: ♦︎
I eased their shoulder from the burden;
their hands were set free from bearing the load.
7 You called upon me in trouble and I delivered you; ♦︎
I answered you from the secret place of thunder
and proved you at the waters of Meribah.
8 Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you: ♦︎
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9 There shall be no strange god among you; ♦︎
you shall not worship a foreign god.
10 I am the Lord your God,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt; ♦︎
open your mouth wide and I shall fill it.
11 But my people would not hear my voice ♦︎
and Israel would not obey me.
12 So I sent them away in the stubbornness of their hearts, ♦︎
and let them walk after their own counsels.
13 O that my people would listen to me, ♦︎
that Israel would walk in my ways!
14 Then I should soon put down their enemies ♦︎
and turn my hand against their adversaries.
15 Those who hate the Lord would be humbled before him, ♦︎
and their punishment would last for ever.
16 But Israel would I feed with the finest wheat ♦︎
and with honey from the rock would I satisfy them.
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17 But as the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise that God had made to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased and multiplied 18until another king who had not known Joseph ruled over Egypt. 19He dealt craftily with our race and forced our ancestors to abandon their infants so that they would die. 20At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful before God. For three months he was brought up in his fathers house; 21and when he was abandoned, Pharaohs daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. 22So Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.
23 When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his relatives, the Israelites.* 24When he saw one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. 25He supposed that his kinsfolk would understand that God through him was rescuing them, but they did not understand. 26The next day he came to some of them as they were quarrelling and tried to reconcile them, saying, Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong each other? 27But the man who was wronging his neighbour pushed Moses* aside, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? 28Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday? 29When he heard this, Moses fled and became a resident alien in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.
30 Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. 31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to look, there came the voice of the Lord: 32I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look. 33Then the Lord said to him, Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. 34I have surely seen the mistreatment of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you to Egypt.
35 It was this Moses whom they rejected when they said, Who made you a ruler and a judge? and whom God now sent as both ruler and liberator through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. 37This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, God will raise up a prophet for you from your own people* as he raised me up. 38He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living oracles to give to us. 39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him; instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts they turned back to Egypt, 40saying to Aaron, Make gods for us who will lead the way for us; as for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.
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