Psalms 78:5
Hebrew Text— Psalms 78:5For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
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Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”
We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.
“ ‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal emission,
“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse.
“Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you.
Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?” All the people shouted, and said, “Long live the king!”
Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”
For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,
Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’
Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live king Solomon!”
There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.
He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.
All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”
Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.
Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.
Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.
You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.
You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever.
The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.