that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children
Parallel translations
- WEB that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
- KJV That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
- NKJV That the generation to come might know them, The children who would be born, That they may arise and declare them to their children,
- NASB So that the generation to come would know, the children yet to be born, That they would arise and tell them to their children,
- NLT so the next generation might know them— even the children not yet born— and they in turn will teach their own children.
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Quick answer
The purpose is that future generations, even unborn children, would know and tell their own children.
Overview
God's design reaches across generations so that His truth is continually passed forward. Each generation learns in order to teach the next, forming an unbroken chain of testimony. This long view of faithful instruction reflects God's purpose to be known and worshiped by His people in every age.
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Cross-references · 10
- Joel 1:3Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
- Ps 102:18Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.
- Ps 90:16May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.
- Esth 9:28These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.
- Ps 22:31They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn—all that He has done.
- Ps 145:4One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
- Deut 4:10The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
- Josh 22:24–25But in fact we have done this for fear that in the future your descendants might say to ours, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?
- Ps 48:13consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
- Ps 71:18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
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