26And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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: …
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.
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
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? …
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? …
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 towa…
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