Deuteronomy 6:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?””
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“In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?”
King James Version · Public Domain“When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`When thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What <FI>are<Fi> the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 6:20 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 10:2and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”
- Exodus 12:26When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 6:7And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Joshua 4:6to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
- Joshua 4:21Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
- Proverbs 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).