Leviticus 23:43
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43 so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”
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Deuteronomy 31:10-13
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10 Moses commanded them, “Every seventh year, in the scheduled year of remission, during the Festival of Booths,[a](A) 11 when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.(B) 12 Assemble the people—men, women, and children, as well as the aliens residing in your towns—so that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God and to observe diligently all the words of this law(C) 13 and so that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing over the Jordan to possess.”(D)
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- 31.10 Or Tabernacles
Psalm 78:5-6
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5 He established a decree in Jacob
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
to teach to their children,(A)
6 that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and rise up and tell them to their children,(B)
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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