Psalms 114:1 meaning and explanation

When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

Psalms 114:1, Berean Standard Bible

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Psalm 114 opens by recalling the exodus, when Israel left Egypt, the land of a people whose speech the Israelites could not understand. The parallel names Israel and the house of Jacob identify the same people, and the mention of a foreign tongue stresses how alien Egypt was to them.

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