Psalms 81:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He decreed it as a regulation in Joseph, when he attacked the land of Egypt. I heard a voice I did not recognize.

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  • Ps 114:1 : 1 When Israel left Egypt, when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind,
  • Jer 5:15 : 15 The LORD says,“Listen, nation of Israel! I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you. It will be a nation that was founded long ago and has lasted for a long time. It will be a nation whose language you will not know. Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand.
  • Deut 28:49 : 49 The LORD will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,
  • Ps 77:15 : 15 You delivered your people by your strength– the children of Jacob and Joseph.(Selah)
  • Exod 11:4 : 4 Moses said,“This is what the LORD has said:‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
  • 1 Cor 14:21-22 : 21 It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord. 22 So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.
  • Ezek 20:20 : 20 Treat my Sabbaths as holy and they will be a reminder of our relationship, and then you will know that I am the LORD your God.”
  • Amos 6:6 : 6 They drink wine from sacrificial bowls, and pour the very best oils on themselves. Yet they are not concerned over the ruin of Joseph.
  • Isa 28:11 : 11 For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.
  • Exod 12:12 : 12 I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the LORD.
  • Exod 12:27 : 27 then you will say,‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.’” The people bowed down low to the ground,
  • Exod 12:29 : 29 The Deliverance from Egypt It happened at midnight– the LORD attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
  • Exod 13:8-9 : 8 You are to tell your son on that day,‘It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ 9 It will be a sign for you on your hand and a memorial on your forehead, so that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
  • Exod 13:14-16 : 14 In the future, when your son asks you‘What is this?’ you are to tell him,‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery. 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’ 16 It will be for a sign on your hand and for frontlets on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
  • Deut 4:45 : 45 These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,
  • Ps 78:6 : 6 so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.
  • Ps 80:1-2 : 1 For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a psalm of Asaph. O shepherd of Israel, pay attention, you who lead Joseph like a flock of sheep! You who sit enthroned above the cherubim, reveal your splendor! 2 In the sight of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh reveal your power! Come and deliver us!

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  • 4 For observing the festival is a requirement for Israel; it is an ordinance given by the God of Jacob.

  • 1 When Israel left Egypt, when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind,

  • 6 It said:“I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.

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    17 He sent a man ahead of them– Joseph was sold as a servant.

    18 The shackles hurt his feet; his neck was placed in an iron collar,

  • 5 He established a rule in Jacob; he set up a law in Israel. He commanded our ancestors to make his deeds known to their descendants,

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    7 God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

    8 So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

  • 18 until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.

  • 23 (Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)

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    4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.

    5 I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

  • 41 “See here,” Pharaoh said to Joseph,“I place you in authority over all the land of Egypt.”

  • 15 Joseph said to them,“What did you think you were doing? Don’t you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?”

  • 26 So Joseph made it a statute, which is in effect to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.

  • 15 for I really was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews and I have done nothing wrong here for which they should put me in a dungeon.”

  • 1 Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, purchased him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

  • 6 He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had:

  • 8 Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt.

  • 22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.

  • 10 and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

  • 46 Now Joseph was 30 years old when he began serving Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by Pharaoh and was in charge of all the land of Egypt.

  • 5 Moses’ Decision Then Moses gave a ruling to the Israelites by the word of the LORD:“What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right.

  • 19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear,“God will surely attend to you, and you will carry my bones up from this place with you.”

  • 28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.

  • 10 He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,

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    5 From the time Potiphar appointed him over his household and over all that he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s household for Joseph’s sake. The blessing of the LORD was on everything that he had, both in his house and in his fields.

    6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; he gave no thought to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.

  • 15 Then he blessed Joseph and said,“May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked– the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,

  • 44 Pharaoh also said to Joseph,“I am Pharaoh, but without your permission no one will move his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

  • 17 Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Say to your brothers,‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!

  • 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph,“I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard about you, that you can interpret dreams.”

  • 43 when he performed his awesome deeds in Egypt, and his acts of judgment in the region of Zoan.

  • 6 But God spoke as follows:‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

  • 31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household,“I will go up and tell Pharaoh,‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

  • 1 Reversal of the Exodus: Return to Egypt and Exile in Assyria When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.

  • 1 Every Effect has its Cause Listen, you Israelites, to this message which the LORD is proclaiming against you! This message is for the entire clan I brought up from the land of Egypt: