And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the Lord did for me when I came up from Egypt.’
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
- KJV And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
- BSB And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
- NASB And you shall tell your son on that day, saying, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
- NLT “On the seventh day you must explain to your children, ‘I am celebrating what the Lord did for me when I left Egypt.’
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Quick answer
Each Israelite is to tell his son that the feast is kept because of what the LORD did for him when he came out of Egypt.
Overview
The observance becomes an occasion for personal testimony: 'what Yahweh did for me.' Each generation is to own the redemption as its own and pass it on to the next. This deeply personal remembrance and teaching of God's saving acts models faithful discipleship, ensuring that the gospel of deliverance is handed down and freshly embraced by every son and daughter.
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Cross-references · 8
- Exod 13:14It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
- Ps 44:1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
- Exod 12:26–27It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
- Ps 78:3–8Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- Isa 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
- Exod 10:2and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”
- Eph 6:4You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- Deut 4:9–10Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;
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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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