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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)

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Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.(A)

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things that we have heard and known,
    that our ancestors have told us.(A)
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)

He established a decree in Jacob
    and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
    to teach to their children,(C)
that the next generation might know them,
    the children yet unborn,
and rise up and tell them to their children,(D)

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“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)

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Tell your children of it,
    and let your children tell their children,
    and their children another generation.(A)

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One generation shall extol your works to another
    and shall declare your mighty acts.(A)

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175 Let me live that I may praise you,
    and let your ordinances help me.(A)

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21 saying to the Israelites, “When your children ask their parents in time to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’(A) 22 then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel crossed over the Jordan here on dry ground.’(B)

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19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise up.(A)

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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) 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human firstborn to the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord every male that first opens the womb, but every firstborn of my sons I redeem.’(B)

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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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19 No, for I have chosen[a] him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”(A)

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  1. 18.19 Heb known

10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.(A)

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I will praise the Lord as long as I live;
    I will sing praises to my God all my life long.(A)

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17 I shall not die, but I shall live
    and recount the deeds of the Lord.(A)

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We[a] must work the works of him who sent me[b] while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.(A)

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  1. 9.4 Other ancient authorities read I
  2. 9.4 Other ancient authorities read us