Exodus 13:8
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8 You shall tell your child on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’(A)
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Exodus 13:14
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14 When in the future your child asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall answer, ‘By strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.(A)
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Psalm 44:1
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Psalm 44
National Lament and Prayer for Help
To the leader. Of the Korahites. A Maskil.
1 We have heard with our ears, O God;
our ancestors have told us
what deeds you performed in their days,
in the days of old:(A)
Exodus 12:26-27
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26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this observance mean to you?’(A) 27 you shall say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck down the Egyptians but spared our houses.’ ” And the people bowed down and worshiped.(B)
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Isaiah 38:19
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19 The living, the living, they thank you,
as I do this day;
fathers make known to children
your faithfulness.(A)
Psalm 78:3-8
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3 things that we have heard and known,
that our ancestors have told us.(A)
4 We will not hide them from their children;
we will tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord and his might
and the wonders that he has done.(B)
5 He established a decree in Jacob
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
to teach to their children,(C)
6 that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and rise up and tell them to their children,(D)
7 so that they should set their hope in God,
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments;(E)
8 and that they should not be like their ancestors,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.(F)
Deuteronomy 4:9-10
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9 “But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children(A)— 10 how you once stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people for me, and I will let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me as long as they live on the earth and may teach their children so’;(B)
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Exodus 10:2
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2 and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I have made fools of the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them—so that you may know that I am the Lord.”(A)
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Ephesians 6:4
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4 And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.(A)
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