Psalms 81:4
For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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ASV
For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
KJV
For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
For it is a commandment for Israel, and a judgment of the God of Jacob. What is the commandment of God? To sing to God in victory: not to think it one's own, but the Lord's.
For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. It was a precept binding upon all the tribes that a sacred season should be set apart to commemorate the Lord's mercy; and truly it was but the Lord's due, he had a right and a claim to such special homage. When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them, but not till then.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.