Exodus 13:8

WEB

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.’

KJV

⁸¶ And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.

BSB

⁸And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

FBV

⁸On that day tell your children, ‘This is because of what the Lord did for me when I left Egypt.’

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Extra References

Exodus 13:14

¹⁴It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.

²⁶It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ ²⁷that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’” The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

Psalms 44:1

¹We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

Exodus 10:2

²and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am the LORD.”

Isaiah 38:19

¹⁹The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

Psalms 78:3-8

³which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ⁴We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done. ⁵For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; ⁶that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children, ⁷that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments, ⁸and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Deuteronomy 4:9-10

⁹Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children— ¹⁰the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

Ephesians 6:4

⁴You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.