For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
Parallel translations
- WEB For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
- BSB For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
- NKJV For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;
- NASB ¶For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers That they were to teach them to their children,
- NLT For he issued his laws to Jacob; he gave his instructions to Israel. He commanded our ancestors to teach them to their children,
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Quick answer
God established His testimony and law in Israel and commanded the fathers to teach it to their children.
Overview
God Himself ordained that His covenant instruction be passed down through families. The law and testimony were given not as dead rules but as truth to be taught and treasured. This divine command makes the discipling of children a sacred duty rooted in God's own design.
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- Eph 6:4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
- Gen 18:19For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
- Ps 81:5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
- Deut 6:7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
- Deut 4:45These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
- Deut 11:19And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
- Isa 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
- Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- Rom 3:2Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
- 1 Jn 5:9–12If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
- Exod 25:21And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
- Exod 40:3And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
- Ps 19:7The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
- Ps 78:3–4Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- Ps 119:152Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
- Exod 25:16And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
- Ps 147:19He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
- Exod 40:20And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
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