that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,
Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord:
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.
Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.
they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels, that you may tell the next generation
that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every clan, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants.
No, but we did it from fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, ‘What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel? For the Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you people of Reuben and people of Gad. You have no portion in the Lord.’ So your children might make our children cease to worship the Lord.
how on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’
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