Exodus 12:26
It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
World English Bible Classic
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
Cross References
Exodus 13:8You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
Exodus 13:22the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn’t depart from before the people.
Deuteronomy 6:20When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God has commanded you mean?”
Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
Joshua 4:21He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’
Psalms 145:4One generation will commend your works to another, and will 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 →