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Christian Standard Bible ®

Deuteronomy 31:13

Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Fear of God;   Instruction;   Law;   Priest;   Sabbatic Year;   School;   Word of God;   Worship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Family;   Fathers;   Home;   Instruction;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Gathering;   Learning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;   Feast of Sabbatical Year, the;   Law of Moses, the;   Scriptures, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Servant;   Tabernacle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Sabbatical year;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Education in Bible Times;   Elder;   Hosea, Theology of;   Priest, Priesthood;   Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hearing the Word of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hilkiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Pentateuch;   Synagogue;   Tabernacles, Feast of;   Versions;   Year;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Festivals;   Preaching in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Sabbatical Year;   Tabernacles, Feast of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Earth;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tabernacles feast of;   Year sabbatical;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Year;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   Sabbath and Feasts;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Moses;   Sabbatical Year;   Teach;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;   Homiletics;   Liturgy;   Pedagogics;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Yarden to possess it.
King James Version
And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Lexham English Bible
And then their children, who have not known, they too may hear, and they may learn to revere Yahweh their God all the days that you live on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to get there to take possession of it."
English Standard Version
and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess."
New Century Version
Since their children do not know this law, they must hear it. They must learn to respect the Lord your God for as long as they live in the land you are crossing the Jordan River to take for your own."
New English Translation
Then their children, who have not known this law, will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
Amplified Bible
"Their children, who have not known [the law], will hear and learn to fear [and worship] the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
New American Standard Bible
"And their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And that their children which haue not knowen it, may heare it, and learne to feare the Lorde your God, as long as ye liue in the lande, whither ye goe ouer Iorden to possesse it.
Legacy Standard Bible
And their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear Yahweh your God, all the days you live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess."
Complete Jewish Bible
and so that their children, who have not known, can hear and learn to fear Adonai your God, for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Yarden to possess."
Darby Translation
and that their children who do not know it may hear it and learn, that they may fear Jehovah your God, as long as ye live in the land, whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it.
Easy-to-Read Version
If their descendants don't know the teachings, they will hear them, and they will learn to respect the Lord your God. They will respect him as long as you live in your country. You will soon go across the Jordan River and take that land to be your own."
George Lamsa Translation
And that their children, who have not known anything, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
Good News Translation
In this way your descendants who have never heard the Law of the Lord your God will hear it. And so they will learn to obey him as long as they live in the land that you are about to occupy across the Jordan."
Literal Translation
and their sons who have not known shall hear, and shall learn to fear Jehovah your God all the days which you live on the land where you are crossing over the Jordan to possess it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and that their children also which knowe nothinge, maye heare and lerne to feare the LORDE yor God, all youre lyue dayes which ye lyue in the londe, whither ye go ouer Iordane to possesse it.
American Standard Version
and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Jehovah your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
Bible in Basic English
And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And that their children which knowe nothyng, may heare, and learne to feare the Lorde your God, as long as ye lyue in the lande whyther ye go ouer Iordane to possesse it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.'
King James Version (1611)
And that their children which haue not knowen any thing, may heare, and learne to feare the Lord your God, as long as yee liue in the land, whither ye goe ouer Iordan to possesse it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And their sons who have not known shall hear, and shall learn to fear the Lord thy God all the days that they live upon the land, into which ye go over Jordan to inherit it.
English Revised Version
and that their children, which have not known, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Berean Standard Bible
Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
also that the sones of hem, that now knowen not, moun here, and that thei drede her Lord God in alle daies in whiche thei lyuen in the lond to whiche ye schulen go to gete, whanne Jordan is passid.
Young's Literal Translation
and their sons, who have not known, do hear, and have learned to fear Jehovah your God all the days which ye are living on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.'
Update Bible Version
and that their sons, who haven't known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.
Webster's Bible Translation
And [that] their children who have not known [any thing], may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
World English Bible
and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.
New King James Version
and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess."
New Living Translation
Do this so that your children who have not known these instructions will hear them and will learn to fear the Lord your God. Do this as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy."
New Life Bible
Then their children, who have not known it, will hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to take."
New Revised Standard
and so that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing over the Jordan to possess."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and that their children who know not, may hear and learn, that they may revere Yahweh your God, - all the days that ye are living upon the soil, which ye are passing over the Jordan to possess.
Douay-Rheims Bible
That their children also, who now are ignorant, may hear, and fear the Lord their God, all the days that they live in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.
Revised Standard Version
and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess."

Contextual Overview

9Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel. 10Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of debt cancellation, during the Festival of Shelters, 11when all Israel assembles in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he chooses, you are to read this law aloud before all Israel. 12Gather the people—men, women, dependents, and the resident aliens within your city gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the Lord your God and be careful to follow all the words of this law. 13Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 6:7, Deuteronomy 11:2, Psalms 78:4-8, Proverbs 22:6, Ephesians 6:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:9 - We will go Deuteronomy 29:10 - General Joshua 24:31 - overlived Joshua Mark 10:13 - disciples

Cross-References

Genesis 31:3
The Lord said to him, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”
Genesis 31:12
And he said, ‘Look up and see: all the males that are mating with the flocks are streaked, spotted, and speckled, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.
Genesis 31:22
On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.
Genesis 32:9
Then Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, ‘Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,’
Genesis 35:7
Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And [that] their children, which have not known [anything],.... Of God and of his law and of their duty to God, to their parents, and the rest of their fellow creatures:

may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God; hear the law of God, learn the meaning of it, and so be brought up in the fear, nurture, and admonition of the Lord, and serve him their Creator in the days of their youth:

as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it; this being a means to continue the fear, service, and worship of God in their posterity, and so of their long continuance in the land of Canaan.


 
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