Psalm 145:4
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4 (A)One generation shall commend your works to another,
and shall declare your mighty acts.
Isaiah 38:19
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19 The living, the living, he thanks you,
as I do this day;
(A)the father makes known to the children
your faithfulness.
Psalm 78:3-7
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3 things that we have heard and known,
that our (A)fathers have told us.
4 We will not (B)hide them from their children,
but (C)tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
and (D)the wonders that he has done.
5 He established (E)a testimony in (F)Jacob
and appointed a law in (G)Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
to teach to their children,
6 that (H)the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
7 so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget (I)the works of God,
but (J)keep his commandments;
Psalm 71:18
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18 So even to (A)old age and gray hairs,
O God, (B)do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Psalm 44:1-2
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Come to Our Help
To the choirmaster. (A)A Maskil[a] of the Sons of Korah.
44 O God, we have heard with our ears,
(B)our fathers have told us,
what deeds you performed in their days,
(C)in the days of old:
2 you with your own hand (D)drove out the nations,
but (E)them you planted;
you afflicted the peoples,
but (F)them you set free;
Footnotes
- Psalm 44:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Deuteronomy 6:7
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7 (A)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
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Joshua 4:21-24
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21 And he said to the people of Israel, (A)“When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 22 then you shall let your children know, (B)‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’ 23 For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, (C)which he dried up for us until we passed over, 24 (D)so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is (E)mighty, that you may (F)fear the Lord your God forever.”[a]
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- Joshua 4:24 Or all the days
Exodus 13:14-15
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14 (A)And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, (B)‘By a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of (C)slavery. 15 For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the (D)Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all the males that first open the womb, but (E)all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’
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Exodus 12:26-27
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26 And (A)when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 you shall say, (B)‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people (C)bowed their heads and worshiped.
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