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19 Only the living can praise you as I do today.
    Each generation tells of your faithfulness to the next.

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Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.

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175 Let me live so I can praise you,
    and may your regulations help me.

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    stories we have heard and known,
    stories our ancestors handed down to us.
We will not hide these truths from our children;
    we will tell the next generation
about the glorious deeds of the Lord,
    about his power and his mighty wonders.
For he issued his laws to Jacob;
    he gave his instructions to Israel.
He commanded our ancestors
    to teach them to their children,
so the next generation might know them—
    even the children not yet born—
    and they in turn will teach their own children.

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“But watch out! Be careful never to forget what you yourself have seen. Do not let these memories escape from your mind as long as you live! And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren.

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Tell your children about it in the years to come,
    and let your children tell their children.
    Pass the story down from generation to generation.

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    I will praise the Lord as long as I live.
    I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.

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Let each generation tell its children of your mighty acts;
    let them proclaim your power.

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17 I will not die; instead, I will live
    to tell what the Lord has done.

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21 Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future your children will ask, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 22 Then you can tell them, ‘This is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

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19 Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.

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14 “And in the future, your children will ask you, ‘What does all this mean?’ Then you will tell them, ‘With the power of his mighty hand, the Lord brought us out of Egypt, the place of our slavery. 15 Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, so the Lord killed all the firstborn males throughout the land of Egypt, both people and animals. That is why I now sacrifice all the firstborn males to the Lord—except that the firstborn sons are always bought back.’

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26 Then your children will ask, ‘What does this ceremony mean?’ 27 And you will reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. And though he struck the Egyptians, he spared our families.’” When Moses had finished speaking, all the people bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

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19 I have singled him out so that he will direct his sons and their families to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Then I will do for Abraham all that I have promised.”

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10 Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave,[a] there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:10 Hebrew to Sheol.

We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us.[a] The night is coming, and then no one can work.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:4 Other manuscripts read I must quickly carry out the tasks assigned me by the one who sent me; still others read We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent me.

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