Psalm 81:1-10

Psalm 80 Psalm 82

Psalm 81:1-10 New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 81^[a]

For the director of music. According to gittith.^[b] Of Asaph.

¹Sing for joy to God our strength;
shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
²Begin the music, strike the timbrel,
play the melodious harp and lyre.

³Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon,
    and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;
⁴this is a decree for Israel,
    an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
⁵When God went out against Egypt,
    he established it as a statute for Joseph.

I heard an unknown voice say:

⁶“I removed the burden from their shoulders;
    their hands were set free from the basket.
⁷In your distress you called and I rescued you,
    I answered you out of a thundercloud;
    I tested you at the waters of Meribah.^[c]
⁸Hear me, my people, and I will warn you—
    if you would only listen to me, Israel!
⁹You shall have no foreign god among you;
    you shall not worship any god other than me.
¹⁰I am the Lord your God,
    who brought you up out of Egypt.
Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.

Footnotes:

Psalm 81:1 In Hebrew texts 81:1-16 is numbered 81:2-17.
Psalm 81:1 Title: Probably a musical term
Psalm 81:7 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

New International Version (NIV)

Leviticus 24:5-9

Leviticus 23 Leviticus 25

Leviticus 24:5-9 New International Version (NIV)

⁵“Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah^[a] for each loaf. ⁶Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the Lord. ⁷By each stack put some pure incense as a memorial^[b] portion to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the Lord. ⁸This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. ⁹It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in the sanctuary area, because it is a most holy part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord.”

Footnotes:

Leviticus 24:5 That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms
Leviticus 24:7 Or representative

New International Version (NIV)

John 7:19-24

John 6 John 8

John 7:19-24 New International Version (NIV)

¹⁹Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

²⁰“You are demon-possessed,” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”

²¹Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. ²²Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. ²³Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath? ²⁴Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”