Exodus 12:26

Literal Standard Version

and it has come to pass, when your sons say to you, What [is] this service you have?

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?'

King James Version
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

Lexham English Bible
And when your children say to you, ‘What is this religious custom for you?'

New Century Version
When your children ask you, ‘Why are we doing these things?'

New English Translation
When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?'—

Amplified Bible
"When your children say to you, 'What does this service mean to you?'

New American Standard Bible
"And when your children say to you, 'What does this rite mean to you?'

Geneva Bible (1587)
And when your children aske you, What seruice is this ye keepe?

Legacy Standard Bible
And it will be when your children say to you, ‘What is the meaning of this new slavery to you?'

Contemporary English Version
Your children will ask you, "What are we celebrating?"

Complete Jewish Bible
When your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this ceremony?'

Darby Translation
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean ye by this service?

Easy-to-Read Version
When your children ask you, ‘Why are we doing this ceremony?'

English Standard Version
And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?'

George Lamsa Translation
And it shall come to pass when your children shall say to you, What is the meaning of this service?

Good News Translation
When your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean?'

Christian Standard Bible®
When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’

Literal Translation
And it shall be, when your sons say to you, What is this service to you?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan youre children saye vnto you: What seruyce is this, that ye haue?

American Standard Version
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

Bible in Basic English
And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when your chyldren aske you, what maner of seruice is this ye do?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you: What mean ye by this service?

King James Version (1611)
And it shall come to passe, when your children shall say vnto you, What meane you by this seruice?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it shall come to pass, if your sons say to you, What is this service?

English Revised Version
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

Berean Standard Bible
When your children ask you, 'What does this service mean to you?'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and whanne youre sones schulen seie to you, What is this religioun? ye schulen seie to hem,

Young's Literal Translation
and it hath come to pass when your sons say unto you, What [is] this service ye have?

Update Bible Version
And it shall come to pass, when your sons shall say to you, What do you mean by this service?

Webster's Bible Translation
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean you by this service?

World English Bible
It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?'

New King James Version
And it shall be, when your children say to you, "What do you mean by this service?'

New Living Translation
Then your children will ask, ‘What does this ceremony mean?'

New Life Bible
When your children ask you, ‘What does this special time mean to you?'

New Revised Standard
And when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this observance?'

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and it shall come to pass that your sons shall say unto you, - What is this your service?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service?

Revised Standard Version
And when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And when your children say to you, 'What does this rite mean to you?'

Contextual Overview

²¹And Moses calls for all [the] elderly of Israel and says to them, "Draw out and take for yourselves [from] the flock, for your families, and slaughter the Passover-sacrifice; ²²and you have taken a bunch of hyssop, and have dipped [it] in the blood which [is] in the basin, and have struck [it] on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, from the blood which [is] in the basin, and you, you do not go out—each from the opening of his house—until morning. ²³And YHWH has passed on to strike the Egyptians, and has seen the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, and YHWH has passed over the opening, and does not permit the destruction to come into your houses to strike. ²⁴And you have observed this thing for a statute to you and to your sons for all time; ²⁵and it has been, when you come to the land which YHWH gives to you as He has spoken, that you have kept this service; ²⁶and it has come to pass, when your sons say to you, What [is] this service you have?²⁷That you have said, It [is] a sacrifice of Passover to YHWH, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, in His striking the Egyptians, and our houses He delivered." ²⁸And the people bow and pay respect, and the sons of Israel go and do as YHWH commanded Moses and Aaron; so they have done.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

your children: Exodus 13:8, Exodus 13:9, Exodus 13:14, Exodus 13:15, Exodus 13:22, Deuteronomy 6:7, Deuteronomy 11:19, Deuteronomy 32:7, Joshua 4:6, Joshua 4:7, Joshua 4:21-24, Psalms 78:3-6, Psalms 145:4, Isaiah 38:19, Ephesians 6:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:29 - General Exodus 13:5 - thou shalt keep Deuteronomy 6:20 - when thy son Deuteronomy 16:3 - mayest Psalms 111:4 - He hath Ezekiel 17:12 - Know

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, what mean ye by this service?] Of killing and roasting a lamb, and eating it with bitter herbs, and of abstaining from leavened bread.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 12:26. What mean ye by this service? — The establishment of this service annually was a very wise provision to keep up in remembrance this wonderful deliverance. From the remotest antiquity the institution of feasts, games, c., has been used to keep up the memory of past grand events. Hence God instituted the Sabbath, to keep up the remembrance of the creation and the passover to keep up the remembrance of the deliverance from Egypt. All the other feasts were instituted on similar reasons. The Jews never took their sons to the tabernacle or temple till they were twelve years of age, nor suffered them to eat of the flesh of any victim till they had themselves offered a sacrifice at the temple, which they were not permitted to do before the twelfth year of their age. It was at this age that Joseph and Mary took our blessed Lord to the temple, probably for the first time, to offer his sacrifice. See Calmet.