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Exodus 12:26
26When your children say to you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
Exodus 12:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
- New International Version (NIV)And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’
- English Standard Version (ESV)And when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?'
- New King James Version (NKJV)And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
Context of Exodus 12:26
24You shall observe this event [concerning Passover] as an ordinance for you and for your children forever. 25When you enter the land which the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you shall keep and observe this service. When your children say to you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’ 27you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians, but spared our houses.’ ” And the people bowed [their heads] low and worshiped [God]. 28Then the Israelites went and did [as they had been told]: just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
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וְהָיָ֕ה כִּֽי־יֹאמְר֥וּ אֲלֵיכֶ֖ם בְּנֵיכֶ֑ם מָ֛ה הָעֲבֹדָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את לָכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Exodus 12:26
- Exodus 13:8You shall explain this to your son on that day, saying, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
- Deuteronomy 6:7You shall teach them diligently to your children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths] and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.
- Deuteronomy 11:19You shall teach them [diligently] to your children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths], speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.
- Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will inform you, Your elders, and they will tell you.
- Joshua 4:6so that this may be a sign among you; when your children ask later, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
- Psalms 78:3Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
- Psalms 145:4One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty and remarkable acts.
- Isaiah 38:19It is the living who give praise and thanks to You, as I do today; A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.
- Ephesians 6:4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to the point of resentment with demands that are trivial or unreasonable or humiliating or abusive; nor by showing favoritism or indifference to any of them], but bring them up [tenderly, with lovingkindness] in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Commentaries on Exodus 12:26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26What mean ye by this service? - The establishment of this service annually was a very wise provision to keep up in remembrance this wonderful deliverance. From the remotest antiquity the institution of feasts, games, etc., has been used to keep up the memory of past grand events. Hence God instituted the Sabbath, to keep up the remembrance of the creation; and the passover to keep up the remembrance of the deliverance from Egypt. All the other feasts were…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 21-28Verses 21-28 That night, when the first-born were to be destroyed, no Israelite must stir out of doors till called to march out of Egypt. Their safety was owing to the blood of sprinkling. If they put themselves from under the protection of that, it was at their peril. They must stay within, to wait for the salvation of the Lord; it is good to do so. In after-times they should carefully teach their children the meaning of this service. It is good for…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26-27In the future, the Passover celebration would be a memorial reminding future generations of Israelites of God’s grace in providing them a way of escape from death. For more than 3,000 years the Jewish people have celebrated this important event in their history.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. when your children shall say, ... What mean ye by this service--Independently of some observances which were not afterwards repeated, the usages practised at this yearly commemorative feast were so peculiar that the curiosity of the young would be stimulated, and thus parents had an excellent opportunity, which they were enjoined to embrace, for instructing each rising generation in the origin and leading facts of the national faith.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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