KJV King James Version
And 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.
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Deuteronomy 11:19
And 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
WEB World English Bible
You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
ASV American Standard Version
And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 11
16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
17 And [then] the LORD’S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 And 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.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
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וְלִמַּדְתֶּ֥םH3925 · la.madto learn: teachאֹתָ֛םH853 · et[Obj.]אֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]בְּנֵיכֶ֖םH1121 · benson: childלְדַבֵּ֣רH1696 · da.varto speak: speakבָּ֑םH9038 · hemthemבְּשִׁבְתְּךָ֤H3427 · ya.shavto dwellבְּבֵיתֶ֙ךָ֙H1004 · betplaceוּבְלֶכְתְּךָ֣H1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentבַדֶּ֔רֶךְH1870 · de.rekhway: conductוּֽבְשָׁכְבְּךָ֖H7901 · sha.khavto lie down: lay downוּבְקוּמֶֽךָ׃H6965 · qa.may(Leb)-kamai
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 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.Isaiah 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.Psalm 34:11Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.Deuteronomy 4:9-10Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;Proverbs 4:1-27Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.Psalm 78:5-6For 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:
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