Exodus 12:26

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

Leeser Tanakh

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 be come into the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

27That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the passover unto the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and our houses he spared; and the people bent the head and bowed themselves.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:8And thou shalt tell thy son on that day, saying, This is done for the sake of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.

Exodus 13:22He took not away the pillar of cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

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

Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old, consider the years of former generations; ask thy father, and he will tell thee; thy elders, and they will say it unto thee:

Joshua 4:21And he said unto the children of Israel, thus, When your children shall ask in time to come their fathers, saying, What mean these stones?

Psalms 145:4One generation shall praise thy works to the other, and thy mighty acts shall they declare.

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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