Deuteronomy 11:19

Remember God’s Words · Deuteronomy 11:18–25
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Translations

Modern
Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Traditional
And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Literal
And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them in your sitting in your house, and in your walking in the way, and in your lying down, and in your rising up.
Latin
Docete filios vestros ut illa meditentur: quando sederis in domo tua, et ambulaveris in via, et accubueris atque surrexeris.

Original

Hebrew
English
Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Notes

Here, Moses adds to the covenant stipulations (the commands in chapters 5–11) a list of blessings and curses. These blessings and curses are similar to the longer list that appears at the end of the covenant text in 27–28. They show the results of obeying or disobeying the covenant.

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