Deuteronomy 32:7

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“Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.”

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BSBPD

“Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Remember days of old--Understand the years of many generations--Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 32:7 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  2. Deuteronomy 4:32Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
  3. Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
  4. Judges 6:13“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
  5. Job 8:8Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
  6. Psalms 10:6He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”
  7. Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
  8. Psalms 44:2With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
  9. Psalms 77:5I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.
  10. Psalms 77:6At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
  11. Psalms 77:8Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?
  12. Psalms 77:11I will remember the works of the LORD; yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.
  13. Psalms 78:3that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
  14. Psalms 119:52I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.
  15. Isaiah 46:9Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
  16. Isaiah 63:11Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

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