That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their 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,
- BSB that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own 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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- Joel 1:3Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
- Ps 102:18This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
- Ps 90:16Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
- Esth 9:28And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
- Ps 22:31They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
- Ps 145:4One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
- Deut 4:10Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
- Josh 22:24–25And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?
- Ps 48:13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
- Ps 71:18Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
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