KJV King James Version
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Exodus 12:26
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
WEB World English Bible
It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
ASV American Standard Version
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and it hath come to pass when your sons say unto you, What is this service ye have?
Surrounding context — Exodus 12
23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite [you].
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the LORD’S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that [was] in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Topics connected to this verse
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
Cross-references
Exodus 13:14-15And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What [is] this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.Psalm 145:4One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.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 78:3-6Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.Ephesians 6:4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.Joshua 4:21-24And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What [mean] these stones?Joshua 4:6-7That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your children ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] ye by these stones?Exodus 10:2And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I [am] the LORD.Exodus 13:8-9And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, [This is done] because of that [which] the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.Deuteronomy 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.Exodus 13:22He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, [from] before the people.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.
CLASSIC COMMENTARY & PREACHING
Spurgeon on Exodus 12:26
Read Charles H. Spurgeon material whose primary Scripture is this verse or passage.
HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION
Compare classic commentaries on Exodus 12:26
Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.
Compare commentaries →