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Exodus 12:26

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It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’

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Exodus 12:26 in other translations

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

Exodus 12:26 · American Standard Version

Exodus 12:26 in context

  1. 24You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
  2. 25It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
  3. 26It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
  4. 27that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’ ”
    The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
  5. 28The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.