Exodus 12:26
And when your sons will say to you, ‘What is the meaning of this religious observance?’
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 13:8And you will explain to your son in that day, saying: ‘This is what the Lord did for me when I was taken away from Egypt.’
Exodus 13:22These never failed: a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night, in the sight of the people.
Deuteronomy 6:20And when your son will ask you tomorrow, saying: ‘What do these testimonies and ceremonies and judgments mean, which the Lord our God has entrusted to us?’
Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of antiquity. Consider each generation. Question your father, and he will declare it to you. Question your elders, and they will tell it to you.
Joshua 4:21And he said to the sons of Israel: “When your sons will question their fathers, tomorrow, and they will say to them, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
Psalms 145:4His spirit will depart, and he will return to his earth. In that day, all their thoughts will perish.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:22-29
The Passover. ( b. c. 1491.) 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. 23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the… Read the whole commentary →