Exodus 12:26
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’”
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“When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?”
King James Version · Public Domain“And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and it hath come to pass when your sons say unto you, What <FI>is<Fi> this service ye have?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 12:26 — 14 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 13:8And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
- 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.
- Exodus 13:22Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 6:20In 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?”
- Deuteronomy 11:19Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
- 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?’
- Psalms 78:3that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- Psalms 145:4One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
- Isaiah 38:19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
- Ephesians 6:4Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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