Exodus 12:26

And it shall come to pass, if your sons say to you, What is this service?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 if ye should enter into the land, which the Lord shall give you, as he has spoken, keep this service.

27that ye shall say to them, This Passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:8And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, Therefore the Lord dealt thus with me, as I was going out of Egypt.

Exodus 13:22And the pillar of cloud failed not by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before all the people.

Deuteronomy 6:20And it shall come to pass when thy son shall ask thee at a future time, saying, What are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord our God has commanded us?

Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old, 1 Consider the years for past ages: 1 Ask thy father, and he shall relate to thee, 1 Thine elders, and they shall tell thee. 1

Joshua 4:21saying, When your sons ask you, saying, What are these stones?

Psalms 145:4His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; 1 In that day all his thoughts shall perish. 1

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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