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The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; this is prescribed forever for you and your descendants.

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10 And when you rejoice[a] on your festivals, and your new-moon feasts, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your communion sacrifices,(A) so that this serves as a reminder of you before your God. I, the Lord, am your God.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:10 When you rejoice: cf. Dt 16:14. Festivals: the great annual feasts of the Passover, Pentecost and Booths described in Lv 23; Nm 28–29.

Psalm 136[a]

Hymn of Thanksgiving for God’s Everlasting Mercy

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Praise the Lord, for he is good;(A)
    for his mercy endures forever;

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 136 The hymn praises Israel’s God (“the God of gods,” Ps 136:2), who has created the world in which Israel lives. The refrain occurring after every line suggests that a speaker and chorus sang the Psalm in antiphonal fashion. A single act of God is described in Ps 136:4–25. God arranges the heavens and the earth as the environment for human community, and then creates the community by freeing them and giving them land. In the final section (Ps 136:23–25) God, who created the people and gave them land, continues to protect and nurture them.