Exodus 12:26
And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is what the Lord did to me when I came forth out of Egypt.
Exodus 13:22There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people.
Deuteronomy 6:20And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?
Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.
Joshua 4:21And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers, to morrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?
Psalms 145:4Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
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 →