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He established a decree in Jacob
    and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
    to teach to their children,(A)

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Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.(A)

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And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.(A)

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He made it a decree in Joseph,
    when he went out over[a] the land of Egypt.

I hear a voice I had not known:(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 81.5 Or against

45 These are the decrees and the statutes and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites when they had come out of Egypt,

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19 The living, the living, they thank you,
    as I do this day;
fathers make known to children
    your faithfulness.(A)

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Much, in every way. For in the first place, the Jews[a] were entrusted with the oracles of God.(A)

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  1. 3.2 Gk they

20 for teaching and for instruction?” surely those who speak like this will have no dawn!(A)

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19 He declares his word to Jacob,
    his statutes and ordinances to Israel.(A)

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things that we have heard and known,
    that our ancestors have told us.(A)
We will not hide them from their children;
    we will tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord and his might
    and the wonders that he has done.(B)

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The law of the Lord is perfect,
    reviving the soul;
the decrees of the Lord are sure,
    making wise the simple;(A)

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19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise up.(A)

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You shall put in it the ark of the covenant, and you shall screen the ark with the curtain.(A)

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