Deuteronomy 31:13

and that their children who know not, may hear and learn, that they may revere Yahweh your God,—all the days that ye are living upon the soil, which ye are passing over the Jordan to possess.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

12Call together the people—the men and the women and the little ones, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates,—that they may hear, and that they may learn, so shall they revere Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;

14Then said Yahweh unto Moses: Lo! thy days have drawn near that thou must die. Call Joshua and station yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may command him. So Moses went, with Joshua, and they took their station in the tent of meeting.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:2And ye must know to-day, (for not with your sons [do I speak] who know not, neither have they seen) the discipline of Yahweh your God,—his greatness, his firm hand, and his stretched-out arm;

Psalms 78:4We will not withhold [them] from their children, To a later generation, recounting the praises of Yahweh, Even his might and his wonders which he wrought;

Proverbs 22:6Train up a youth, in the direction of his duty, even when he becometh old, he will not depart from it.

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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