Deuteronomy 31:13
11 when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.
12 Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.
Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the time of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.
15 Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
- KJV
- And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
- WEB
- and that their children, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
- ASV
- and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Jehovah your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
- DARBY
- and that their children who do not know it may hear it and learn, that they may fear Jehovah your God, as long as ye live in the land, whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it.
- BLB
- and [that] their children who have not known it may hear and learn to fear YHWH your⁺ God all the days that you⁺ are living in the land that you⁺ are passing over the Jordan to possess.”
- ÅB
- og deres barn som ikke kjenner den, kan få høre den og lære å frykte Herren deres Gud alle de dager dere lever i det land som dere nå drar til over Jordan og skal ta i eie.
- OTB
- Deres barn, som ikke er kjent med denne loven, skal høre den og lære å ære Herren deres Gud så lenge dere lever i det landet dere krysser Jordan for å ta i eie.
- B1930
- og deres barn som ikke kjenner den, kan få høre den og lære å frykte Herren eders Gud alle de dager I lever i det land som I nu drar til over Jordan og skal ta i eie.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 11:2
Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:7
And 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.
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 contextPsalms 78:4–8
We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
Read in contextProverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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