申命记 6:20

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

“日後，如果你的兒子問你：‘耶和華我們的　神吩咐的這法度、律例和典章，有甚麼意思呢？’

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
日 後 ， 你 的 儿 子 问 你 说 ： 耶 和 华 ─ 我 们 　 神 吩 咐 你 们 的 这 些 法 度 、 律 例 、 典 章 是 甚 麽 意 思 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ Be sure to obey the commands of the Lord your God and the rules and laws he has given you. ¹⁸ Do what the Lord says is good and right so that things will go well for you. Then you may go in and take the good land the Lord promised to your ancestors. ¹⁹ He will force all your enemies out as you go in, as the Lord has said. ²⁰ In the future when your children ask you, "What is the meaning of the laws, commands, and rules the Lord our God gave us?" ²¹ tell them, "We were slaves to the king of Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt by his great power. ²² The Lord showed us great and terrible signs and miracles, which he did to Egypt, the king, and his whole family. ²³ The Lord brought us out of Egypt to lead us here and to give us the land he promised our ancestors. ²⁴ The Lord ordered us to obey all these commands and to respect the Lord our God so that we will always do well and stay alive, as we are today. ²⁵ The right thing for us to do is this: Obey all these rules in the presence of the Lord our God, as he has commanded."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

when thy son: Deuteronomy 6:7, Exodus 12:26, Exodus 13:14, Joshua 4:6, Joshua 4:7, Joshua 4:21-24, Proverbs 22:6

in time to come: Heb. to-morrow

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:2 - And that Exodus 21:1 - the judgments Deuteronomy 4:45 - These Joshua 22:24 - In time to come Ezekiel 17:12 - Know Ephesians 6:4 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said, "Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Genesis 2:19
From the ground God formed every wild animal and every bird in the sky, and he brought them to the man so the man could name them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name.

Genesis 6:8
But Noah pleased the Lord .

Genesis 6:11
People on earth did what God said was evil, and violence was everywhere.

Genesis 6:12
When God saw that everyone on the earth did only evil,

Genesis 6:16
Make an opening around the top of the boat that is eighteen inches high from the edge of the roof down. Put a door in the side of the boat. Make an upper, middle, and lower deck in it.

Genesis 6:20
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and crawling thing will come to you to be kept alive.

John 5:40
but you refuse to come to me to have that life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when thy son asketh thee in time to come,.... Or "tomorrow" x; that is, in later times, as Jarchi interprets it; any time after this, and particularly after they were come into the land of Canaan, when the several laws, statutes, and ordinances appointed, would take place and be obeyed:

what [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you? what is the reason of the various rites, customs, and usages, the observance of which is directed to, such as the feasts of passover, pentecost, tabernacles, sacrifices, and other duties of religion?

x מחר "cras", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger;

(1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and

(2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors.

The former error Moses strives to guard against in the verses before us; the latter in Deuteronomy 7:1-11.

Deuteronomy 6:13

The command “to swear by His Name” is not inconsistent with the Lord’s injunction Matthew 5:34, “Swear not at all.” Moses refers to legal swearing, our Lord to swearing in common conversation. It is not the purpose of Moses to encourage the practice of taking oaths, but to forbid that, when taken, they should be taken in any other name than that of Israel’s God. The oath involves an invocation of Deity, and so a solemn recognition of Him whose Name is made use of in it. Hence, it comes especially within the scope of the commandment Moses is enforcing.

Deuteronomy 6:25

It shall be our righteousness - i. e., God will esteem us as righteous and deal with us accordingly. From the very beginning made Moses the whole righteousness of the Law to depend entirely on a right state of the heart, in one word, upon faith.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 6:20. And when thy son asketh thee, &c. — "Here," as Mr. Ainsworth justly remarks, "followeth a brief catechism, containing the grounds of religion."

What mean the testimonies, &c. — The Hebrew language has no word to express to mean or signify, and therefore uses simply the substantive verb what is, i. e., what mean or signify, &c. The seven thin ears ARE, i. e., signify, seven years of famine. This form of speech frequently occurs.