Exodus 12:26
24 And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.
25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.
When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
27 you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
28 And the Israelites went and did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
- KJV
- And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
- WEB
- It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
- ASV
- And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
- DARBY
- And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean ye by this service?
- BLB
- And it shall be, when your⁺ sons say to you⁺, ‘What [is] this service to you⁺?’
- ÅB
- Og når deres barn sier til dere: Hva er dette for en tjeneste som dere holder? -
- OTB
- Og når barna deres sier til dere: ‘Hva betyr denne skikken for dere?’
- B1930
- Og når eders barn sier til eder: Hvad er dette for en tjeneste som I holder? -
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 13:14–15
In 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:7
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.
Read in contextPsalms 145:4
One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
Read in contextPsalms 78:3–6
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
Read in contextJoshua 4:21–24
Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
Read in contextIsaiah 38:19
The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
Read in contextEphesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Read in contextJoshua 4:6–7
to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
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