◄ Deuteronomy 6:20 ►
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Good News Translation
"In times to come your children will ask you, 'Why did the LORD our God command us to obey all these laws?'

New Revised Standard Version
When your children ask you in time to come, “What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

Contemporary English Version
Someday your children will ask, "Why did the LORD give us these laws and teachings?"

New American Bible
Later on, when your son asks you, “What do these decrees and statutes and ordinances mean?” which the LORD, our God, has enjoined on you,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?

when thy son

Deuteronomy 6:7 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

Exodus 12:26 And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service?

Exodus 13:14 And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What is this? thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Joshua 4:6,7,21-24 That it may be a sign among you: and when your children shall ask you tomorrow, saying: What means these stones? . . .

Proverbs 22:6 It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.

in time to come [heb] tomorrow

Context
Teach Your Children
20And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?21Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.…
Cross References
Exodus 13:8
And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is what the Lord did to me when I came forth out of Egypt.

Exodus 13:14
And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What is this? thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Deuteronomy 4:9
Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

Deuteronomy 6:19
That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath spoken.

Deuteronomy 6:21
Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

Psalm 44:1
Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God. [1] Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding.

Deuteronomy 6:19
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