Yes, 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.
Joshua 4:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, What do you mean by these stones? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that 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? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition That this may be a sign among you when your children ask in time to come, What do these stones mean to you? American Standard Version (1901) that this may be a sign among you, that, when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? Common English Bible This will be a symbol among you. In the future your children may ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ Catholic Public Domain Version so that it may be a sign among you. And when your sons will ask you, tomorrow, saying, 'What do these stones mean to you?' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That it may be a sign among you: and when your children shall ask you to-morrow, saying: What mean these stones? |
Yes, 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.
This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;
It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.
*Speak also to the children of Yisra'el, saying, 'Most certainly you shall keep my Shabbatot: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Moreover also I gave them my Shabbatot, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
and make my Shabbatot holy; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.
even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Yisra'el.
For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.*
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.
but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our shalom offerings; that your children may not tell our children in time to come, You have no portion in the LORD.
He spoke to the children of Yisra'el, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
and Yehoshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Yarden, and take up every man of you a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Yisra'el;