Deuteronomy 6:20 “In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees…”

Deuteronomy 6:20

In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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?

World English Bible

When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God has commanded you mean?”

American Standard Version

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?

Geneva Bible 1599

When thy sonne shall aske thee in time to come, saying, What meane these testimonies, and ordinances, and Lawes, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

'When thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

Bible in Basic English

And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?

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Cross references

“when thy son”

Exodus 13:14 Exodus 12:26 Joshua 4:21–24 Deuteronomy 6:7 Proverbs 22:6 Joshua 4:6

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.

Exodus 12:26 · BSB

When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

Joshua 4:21–24 · BSB

Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’

Deuteronomy 6:7 · BSB

And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Proverbs 22:6 · BSB

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Joshua 4:6 · BSB

to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

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

In context

19driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.

21then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Read Deuteronomy 6