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I Will Open My Mouth in Parables

Psalms 78:6

In 11 translations

BSB
that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children
KJV
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
WEB
that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
ASV
That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell them to their children,
LSV
So that a later generation knows, || Sons who are born, rise and recount to their sons,
YLT
So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,
DBY
That the generation to come might know [them], the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to their children,
DRC77:6
That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.
GNV
That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children:
JPS
That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born; who should arise and tell them to their children,
LXXE77:6
that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
לְמַ֤עַן יֵדְע֨וּ ׀ דּ֣וֹר אַ֭חֲרוֹן בָּנִ֣ים יִוָּלֵ֑דוּ יָ֝קֻ֗מוּ וִֽיסַפְּר֥וּ לִבְנֵיהֶֽם׃
LXX-Br77:6
ὅπως ἂν γνῷ γενεὰ ἑτέρα, υἱοὶ οἱ τεχθησόμενοι, καὶ ἀναστήσονται καὶ ἀπαγγελοῦσιν αὐτὰ τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτῶν·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Joel 1:3Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
  • Psalms 102:18Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.
  • Psalms 90:16May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.
  • Psalms 145:4One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
  • Psalms 22:31They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn— all that He has done.
  • Esther 9:28These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their…
  • Deuteronomy 4:10The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach…
  • Psalms 71:18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
  • Psalms 48:13consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
  • Joshua 22:24–25But in fact we have done this for fear that in the future your descendants might say to ours, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel? For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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  • 77:6 in some Bibles
  • 78:6 in most Bibles

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