Exodus 12:26

And it shall be, when your children say to you, What is this service to you?

Targum Onkelos

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 be, when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give you as He hath said, that you shall (still) keep this service.

27You shall say, It is a sacrifice for compassion before the Lord, because He had compassion on the house of the sons of Israel in Mizraim, when He smote the Mizraee, but spared our houses. And the people bowed and worshipped.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:8And thou shalt teach thy son on that day, saying, (It is) on account of that which the Lord did for me in bringing me out of Mizraim.

Exodus 13:22The column of the cloud by day, nor the column of the fire by night, departed not before the people.

Deuteronomy 6:20When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, (mehar, tomorrow,) saying, What are the testimonies, statutes, and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old, consider the years of generation and generation; ask thy fathers, and they will show thee, thy elders, and they will tell thee.

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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