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Psalms 78:3

God's wordParents and children

1 Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,

that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

4 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.

5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

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Compare

BSB
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
KJV
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
WEB
which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
ASV
Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
DARBY
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:
BLB
which we have heard and known, and our fathers have recounted to us.
ÅB
Det vi har hørt og vet, og det våre fedre har fortalt oss,
OTB
Som vi har hørt og kjent,
Og som våre forfedre har fortalt oss.
B1930
Det vi har hørt og vet, og det våre fedre har fortalt oss,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 44:1

    We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

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  • Exodus 12:26–27

    When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

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  • Exodus 13:8

    And 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.’

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  • 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.

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  • Psalms 48:8

    As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah

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