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\c 105
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\q1
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\v 1 Give thanks to Yahweh; worship him and pray to him.
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\q2 Tell everyone in the world what he has done!
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\v 2 Sing to him; praise him as you sing to him;
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\q2 tell others about his wonderful miracles.
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\v 3 Be proud of Yahweh, who alone is God.
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\q2 You people who worship Yahweh, rejoice!
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\q1
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\v 4 Ask Yahweh to help you and give you his strength,
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\q2 and always seek to be with him!
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\q1
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\v 5-6 You people who are descendants of God's servant Abraham,
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\q2 you descendants of Jacob, the people whom God has chosen,
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\q2 think about all the wonderful things that he has done;
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\q2 he performed miracles, and he punished all our enemies.
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\q1
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\v 7 He is Yahweh, our God.
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\q1 He rules and judges people throughout the earth.
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\q1
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\v 8 He never forgets the covenant that he made;
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\q2 he made a promise that will last for a thousand generations.
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\q1
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\v 9 That is the covenant that he made with Abraham,
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\q2 and he repeated that covenant with Isaac.
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\v 10 Later he confirmed it again to Jacob
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\q2 as a covenant for the Israelite people that would last forever.
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\q1
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\v 11 What he said was, "I will give you the region of Canaan;
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\q2 it will belong to you and your descendants forever."
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\v 12 He said that to them when there were only a few of them,
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\q2 a tiny group of people who were living in that land like strangers.
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\v 13 They continued to wander from one place to another,
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\q2 from one kingdom to another.
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\v 14 But he did not allow others to oppress them.
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\q2 He warned those kings by saying to them,
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\v 15 "Do not do harm to the people whom I have chosen!
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\q2 Do not harm my prophets!"
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\v 16 He sent a famine to Canaan, and as a result all the people had no food to eat.
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\v 17 So his people went to Egypt, but first he sent someone there.
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\q2 He sent Joseph, who had been sold to be a slave.
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\v 18 Later, while Joseph was in prison in Egypt,
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\q2 they put his legs in shackles that bruised his feet,
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\q1 and they put an iron collar around his neck.
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\v 19 Joseph was in prison
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\q2 until what he predicted would happen came true and showed him to be right.
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\v 20 The king of Egypt sent servants, who set him free;
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\q2 this ruler released Joseph from prison.
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\v 21 Then he appointed him to take care of everything in the king's household,
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\q2 to take care of everything that the king possessed.
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\v 22 Joseph was permitted to command the king's important servants
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\q2 to do anything that Joseph wanted them to do,
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\q2 and even to tell the king's advisors the things that they should do for the people of Egypt.
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\v 23 Later, Joseph's father Jacob arrived in Egypt.
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\q2 He lived like a foreigner in the land that belonged to the descendants of Ham.
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\v 24 Years later Yahweh caused the descendants of Jacob to become very numerous.
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\q2 As a result, their enemies, the Egyptians, considered that the Israelites were too strong.
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\v 25 So Yahweh caused the rulers of Egypt to turn against the Israelite people,
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\q2 and they began to oppress his people.
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\v 26 But then Yahweh sent his servant Moses
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\q2 along with Moses' older brother Aaron, whom Yahweh had also chosen to be his servant.
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\v 27 Those two performed amazing miracles among the people of Egypt
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\q2 in that land where the descendants of Ham lived.
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\v 28 Yahweh sent darkness so that the people of Egypt could not see anything,
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\q2 but the rulers of Egypt refused to obey when Moses and Aaron commanded them to let the Israelite people leave Egypt.
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\v 29 Yahweh caused all the water in Egypt to become blood,
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\q2 and his doing that caused all the fish to die.
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\v 30 Then he caused the land to become full of frogs;
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\q2 the king and his officials even had frogs in their bedrooms.
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\v 31 Then Yahweh commanded that flies come, and swarms of them descended on the people of Egypt,
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\q2 and gnats also swarmed across the whole country.
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\v 32 Instead of sending rain, Yahweh sent terrible hail,
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\q2 and lightning flashed throughout the land.
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\v 33 The hail ruined their grapevines and fig trees
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\q2 and shattered all the other trees.
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\v 34 He commanded locusts to come, and hordes of them came;
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\q2 so many came that they could not be counted.
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\v 35 The locusts ate every green plant in the land,
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\q2 ruining all the crops.
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\v 36 Then Yahweh killed the oldest son in every house of the people of Egypt.
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\v 37 Then he brought the Israelite people out from Egypt;
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\q2 they were carrying heavy loads of jewelry made of silver and gold that the people of Egypt had given to them.
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\q1 No one was left behind because of being sick.
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\v 38 The people of Egypt were glad when the Israelite people left
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\q2 because they had become very afraid of the Israelites.
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\v 39 Then Yahweh spread a cloud to cover the Israelites;
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\q2 and at night it became a big fire in the sky to give them light.
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\v 40 Later the Israelites asked for meat to eat,
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\q2 and Yahweh sent flocks of quail to them,
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\q1 and he gave them plenty of manna, food from the sky, each morning.
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\v 41 One day he caused a rock to open up, and water poured out for them to drink;
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\q2 it was like a river flowing in that desert.
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\v 42 He did that because he kept thinking about the sacred promise that he had given to his servant, Abraham.
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\v 43 So his people were joyful as he brought them out from Egypt;
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\q2 these people whom he had chosen were shouting joyfully as they went.
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\v 44 He gave to them the land that belonged to the people groups that lived there in Canaan,
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\q2 and the Israelites took all their wealth.
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\v 45 Yahweh did all these things
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\q2 so that his people would do all the things that he had commanded them to do.
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\q1 Praise Yahweh!
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