And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
- KJV And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
- NKJV And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever.
- NASB And you shall keep this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever.
- NLT “Remember, these instructions are a permanent law that you and your descendants must observe forever.
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Quick answer
Israel is to keep this Passover observance as a lasting ordinance for them and their children.
Overview
The deliverance is to be remembered perpetually, passed from generation to generation. God intends the saving event to shape the faith of children yet unborn. This generational transmission of redemptive memory undergirds the biblical concern that families teach the mighty works of God, so that each new generation may know and trust the Lord who saves.
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Cross-references · 2
- Exod 12:14And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
- Gen 17:8–10And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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