Exodus 12:26
When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
Majority Standard Bible
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
25When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.
Cross References
Exodus 13:8And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
Exodus 13:22Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people.
Deuteronomy 6:20In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”
Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
Joshua 4:21Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
Psalms 145:4One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim 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 →