Deuteronomy 32:7 “Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your fathe…”

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Remember 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.

World English Bible

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

American Standard Version

Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

Remember the dayes of olde: consider the yeeres of so many generations: aske thy father, and he will shewe thee: thine Elders, and they will tell thee.

Darby Translation

Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

Young's Literal Translation

Remember days of old — Understand the years of many generations — Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:

Bible in Basic English

Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

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Cross references

“Remember”

Psalm 44:1 Isaiah 63:11 Psalm 119:52 Psalm 77:5

Psalm 44:1 · BSB

We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

Isaiah 63:11 · BSB

Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

Psalm 119:52 · BSB

I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.

Psalm 77:5 · BSB

I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

“many generations”

Psalm 10:6 Psalm 77:8

Psalm 10:6 · BSB

He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”

Psalm 77:8 · BSB

Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?

“ask”

Job 8:8–10 Isaiah 46:9 Deuteronomy 4:32 Exodus 13:14 Judges 6:13 Psalm 77:6

Job 8:8–10 · BSB

Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

Isaiah 46:9 · BSB

Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.

Deuteronomy 4:32 · BSB

Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

Exodus 13:14 · BSB

In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Judges 6:13 · BSB

“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the…

Psalm 77:6 · BSB

At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

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