Exodus 12:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

Exodus 12:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 13:14-15
And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: …
Deuteronomy 32:7
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Psalms 145:4
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
Joshua 4:6-7
That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? …
Joshua 4:21-24
And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-28)

I. Moses is here, as a faithful steward in God’s house, teaching the children of Israel to observe all things which God had commanded him; and no doubt he gave the instructions as largely as he received them, though they are not so largely recorded. It is here added, 1. That this night, when the first-born were to be destroyed, no Israelite must stir out of doors till morning, that is, till toward…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. when your children shall say, ... What mean ye by this service--Independently of some observances which were not afterwards repeated, the usages practised at this yearly commemorative feast were so peculiar that the curiosity of the young would be stimulated, and thus parents had an excellent opportunity, which they were enjoined to embrace, for instructing each rising generation in the origin…