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It will happen, when your children ask you, `What do you mean by this service?`

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Encourage Spiritual Curiosity

Commentators see this verse as a model for spiritual education. It anticipates children asking about religious practices, and as Matthew Henry notes, "It is good for children to ask about the things of God." This biblical pattern encourages parents to welcome and be prepared for their children's questions about faith, seeing it as a God-given opportunity for teaching.

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Exodus

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John Gill

John Gill

On Exodus 12:26

17th Century

Pastor

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to
you, what do you mean by this service

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Exodus 12:21–28

17th Century

Minister

That night, when the first-born were to be destroyed, no Israelite must stir out of doors until called to march out of Egypt. Their safety was owin…