Exodus 12:26
And when your children aske you, What seruice is this ye keepe?
Geneva Bible 1599
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 13:8And thou shalt shew thy sonne in that day, saying, This is done, because of that which the Lord did vnto me, when I came out of Egypt.
Exodus 13:22He tooke not away the pillar of ye cloude by day, nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.
Deuteronomy 6:20When thy sonne shall aske thee in time to come, saying, What meane these testimonies, and ordinances, and Lawes, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?
Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the dayes of olde: consider the yeeres of so many generations: aske thy father, and he will shewe thee: thine Elders, and they will tell thee.
Joshua 4:21And he spake vnto ye childre of Israel, saying, When your children shall aske their fathers in time to come, and say, What meane these stones?
Psalms 145:4Generation shall praise thy works vnto generation, and declare thy power.
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 →