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¹ O give thanks unto the LORD, call upon His name; make known His doings among the peoples.² Sing unto Him, sing praises unto Him; speak ye of all His marvellous works.³ Glory ye in His holy name; let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.⁴ Seek ye the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually.⁵ Remember His marvellous works that He hath done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth;⁶ O ye seed of Abraham His servant, ye children of Jacob, His chosen ones.⁷ He is the LORD our God; His judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ He hath remembered His covenant for ever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations;⁹ [The covenant] which He made with Abraham, and His oath unto Isaac;¹⁰ And He established it unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant;¹¹ Saying: 'Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.'¹² When they were but a few men in number. Yea, very few, and sojourners in it,¹³ And when they went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,¹⁴ He suffered no man to do them wrong, yea, for their sake He reproved kings:¹⁵ 'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.'¹⁶ And He called a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.¹⁷ He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant;¹⁸ His feet they hurt with fetters, his person was laid in iron;¹⁹ Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the LORD tested him.²⁰ The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the peoples, and set him free.²¹ He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions;²² To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.²³ Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.²⁴ And He increased His people greatly, and made them too mighty for their adversaries.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.²⁶ He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron whom He had chosen.²⁷ They wrought among them His manifold signs, and wonders in the land of Ham.²⁸ He sent darkness, and it was dark; and they rebelled not against His word.²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs, in the chambers of their kings.³¹ He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats in all their borders.³² He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.³³ He smote their vines also and their fig-trees; and broke the trees of their borders.³⁴ He spoke, and the locust came, and the canker-worm without number,³⁵ And did eat up every herb in their land, and did eat up the fruit of their ground.³⁶ He smote also all the first-born in their land, the first-fruits of all their strength.³⁷ And He brought them forth with silver and gold; and there was none that stumbled among His tribes.³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.³⁹ He spread a cloud for a screen; and fire to give light in the night.⁴⁰ They asked, and He brought quails, and gave them in plenty the bread of heaven.⁴¹ He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they ran, a river in the dry places.⁴² For He remembered His holy word unto Abraham His servant;⁴³ And He brought forth His people with joy, His chosen ones with singing.⁴⁴ And He gave them the lands of the nations, and they took the labour of the peoples in possession;⁴⁵ That they might keep His statutes, and observe His laws.