Exodus 12:26

Webster's Bible (1833)

It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?'

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  • Exod 13:14-15 : 14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.'
  • Deut 32:7 : 7 Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you.
  • Josh 4:6-7 : 6 that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, What do you mean by these stones? 7 then you shall tell them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.
  • Josh 4:21-24 : 21 He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? 22 Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. 23 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you were passed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over; 24 that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Yahweh, that it is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.
  • Ps 78:3-6 : 3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, His strength, and his wondrous works that he has done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children; 6 That the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; Who should arise and tell their children,
  • Ps 145:4 : 4 One generation will commend your works to another, And will declare your mighty acts.
  • Isa 38:19 : 19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known your truth.
  • Eph 6:4 : 4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
  • Exod 13:22 : 22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart from before the people.
  • Deut 6:7 : 7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
  • Deut 11:19 : 19 You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
  • Exod 10:2 : 2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."
  • Exod 13:8-9 : 8 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.' 9 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.

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  • Exod 12:27-28
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    27that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'" The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

    28The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

  • Exod 12:23-25
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    82%

    23For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

    24You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.

    25It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

  • Exod 13:14-15
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    14It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;

    15and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.'

  • Deut 6:20-21
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    20When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you?

    21then you shall tell your son, We were Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

  • Exod 13:8-11
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    8You shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.'

    9It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.

    10You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

    11"It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you,

  • Exod 12:11-14
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    11This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.

    12For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.

    13The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

    14This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

  • Josh 4:6
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    6that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, What do you mean by these stones?

  • Josh 22:27-28
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    27but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings; that your children may not tell our children in time to come, You have no portion in Yahweh.

    28Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so tell us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.

  • Exod 12:42
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    42It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

  • Deut 11:19-20
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    19You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

    20You shall write them on the door-posts of your house, and on your gates;

  • Josh 4:21-22
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    21He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

    22Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

  • Exod 13:5
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    5It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.

  • Exod 12:6
    72%

    6and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

  • Exod 12:21
    71%

    21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.

  • Exod 12:17
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    17You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

  • Exod 10:24
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    24Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you."

  • Num 9:2-4
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    2"Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.

    3On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season-- according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."

    4Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover.

  • Deut 6:7
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    7and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

  • Exod 12:3
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    3Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;

  • Josh 22:24
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    24and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this, [and] of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

  • Jer 5:19
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    19It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

  • Exod 4:23
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    23and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

  • Exod 10:2
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    2and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."

  • Deut 12:25
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    25You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

  • Deut 16:12
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    12You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.

  • Num 15:18
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    18Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land where I bring you,

  • Deut 16:1
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    1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.

  • Ezek 37:18
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    18When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?

  • Deut 4:25
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    25When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;

  • Exod 12:47
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    47All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

  • Exod 12:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

  • Deut 4:10
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    10the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.

  • Deut 24:22
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    22You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.