So that the generation to come would know, the children yet to be born, That they would arise and tell 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,
- 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:
- 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,
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Joel 1:3Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.
- Ps 102:18This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.
- Ps 90:16Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to 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 their memory perish from their offspring,
- Ps 22:31They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.
- Ps 145:4One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.
- Deut 4:10the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
- Josh 22:24–25“If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, “What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?
- Ps 48:13Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.
- Ps 71:18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
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