Exodus 12:26

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean ye by this service?

Darby Translation

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

25And it shall come to pass, when ye are come into the land that Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, that ye shall keep this service.

27that ye shall say, It is a sacrifice of passover to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed their heads and worshipped.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:8And thou shalt inform thy son in that day, saying, It is because of what Jehovah did to me when I came out of Egypt.

Exodus 13:22The pillar of the cloud did not remove [from] before the people by day, nor the pillar of fire by night.

Deuteronomy 6:20When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

Joshua 4:21And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children hereafter ask their fathers, saying, What [mean] these stones?

Psalms 145:4One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

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 →

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