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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.
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Passing Faith to the Next Generation
Commentators agree that a primary purpose of the public Law reading was to educate future generations. For children who had not personally witnessed God's initial works, this recurring ceremony was the prescribed way for them to 'hear, and learn to fear the Lord.' It was a divine strategy for passing faith down and maintaining the covenant community.
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Deuteronomy
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19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 31:9–13. MOSES RESIGNS HIS CHARGE AS LAWGIVER TO THE PRIESTS.
And Moses wrote this law,…
16th Century
Protestant
And that their children, who have not known anything. Again, we see that their present assembly is not referred to, but that which was to …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And [that] their children, which have not known [anything] , &c.] Of God and of his law and of their duty to God, to…
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Presbyterian
Although we read the Word in private, we must not think it unnecessary to hear it read in public. This solemn reading of the Law must be done in th…
