Deuteronomy 31:13

and that their children, who have not known, may sh'ma ·hear obey·, and learn to fear Adonai your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan [Descender] to possess it.” (RY:6, LY:5)

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In The King James Version

And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

In Context

12+ 31:12. Deut 31:12 (Deut 31:9-13) (#4.358): T. Assemble all the people in your towns to hear Torah ·Teaching· at the end of the seventh Year, the Sabbath Year, the Sh'mitta ·Release· Year / R. To assemble all the people on the Sukkot ·Tabernacles· following the seventh Year, the Sh'mitta ·Release· Year Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may sh'ma ·hear obey·, and that they may learn, and fear Adonai your God, and observe to do all the words of this Torah ·Teaching·;

14Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out], “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua [Yah Salvation], and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may enjoin him.” Moses [Drawn out] and Joshua [Yah Salvation] went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:2Know this day: for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Adonai your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,

Psalms 78:4We will not hide them from their children, 2 telling to the generation to come the tehilahot ·praise songs· of Adonai, 2 his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done. 1

Proverbs 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go, 2 and when he is old he will not depart from it. 1

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 31:10-14

The Reading of the Law. ( b. c. 1451.) 9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord , and unto all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11 When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Gather the… Read the whole commentary →

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