Exodus 12:26

and it has come to pass, when your sons say to you, What [is] this service you have?

Literal Standard 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

25and it has been, when you come to the land which YHWH gives to you as He has spoken, that you have kept this service;

27That you have said, It [is] a sacrifice of Passover to YHWH, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, in His striking the Egyptians, and our houses He delivered.”

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Cross References

Exodus 13:8And you have declared to your son in that day, saying, [It is] because of what YHWH did to me, in my going out from Egypt,

Exodus 13:22He does not remove the pillar of the cloud by day, and the pillar of the fire by night, [from] before the people.

Deuteronomy 6:20When your son asks you hereafter, saying, What [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments which our God YHWH has commanded you?

Deuteronomy 32:7Remember days of old—Understand the years of many generations—Ask your father, and he tells you; Your elderly, and they say to you:

Joshua 4:21And he speaks to the sons of Israel, saying, “When your sons ask their fathers hereafter, saying, What [are] these stones?

Psalms 145:4Generation to generation praises Your works, || And they declare Your 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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