Deuteronomy 6:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ “When your children ask you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ When your son asks you in time to come, What is the meaning of the testimonies and statutes and precepts which the Lord our God has commanded you?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

Common English Bible

²⁰ In the future, your children will ask you, “What is the meaning of the laws, the regulations, and the case laws that the LORD our God commanded you?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And when your son will ask you tomorrow, saying: 'What do these testimonies and ceremonies and judgments mean, which the Lord our God has entrusted to us?'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And when thy son shall ask thee to-morrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?

Deuteronomy 6:20 Cross References

Psalm 44:1

We have heard with our ears, O God; our ancestors have told us what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:

Exodus 10:2

and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I have made fools of the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them—so that you may know that I am the Lord.”

Exodus 12:26

And when your children ask you, ‘What does this observance mean to you?’

Exodus 13:14

When in the future your child asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall answer, ‘By strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

Exodus 13:8

You shall tell your child on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

Proverbs 22:6

Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray.

Deuteronomy 4:9

“But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Deuteronomy 6:19

thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has promised.

Deuteronomy 6:21

then you shall say to your children, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 6:7

Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.