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Joel 1:3

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

KJV

Super hoc filiis vestris narrate, et filii vestri filiis suis, et filii eorum generationi alteræ.

Vulgate

ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν διηγήσασθε, καὶ τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν τοῖς τέκνοις αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν εἰς γενεὰν ἑτέραν.

LXX

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

ASV

עָלֶ֖/יהָ לִ/בְנֵי/כֶ֣ם סַפֵּ֑רוּ וּ/בְנֵי/כֶם֙ לִ/בְנֵי/הֶ֔ם וּ/בְנֵי/הֶ֖ם לְ/ד֥וֹר אַחֵֽר

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲחֵרִ֔ים
'chrym
adjective · 166×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
כֶ֔ם
km
noun · 164×
סֹּפֵ֔ר
spr
verb · 161×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 6:7 — And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
  • Exod 10:1 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
  • Exod 10:2 — And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.
  • Exod 13:14 — And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
  • Isa 38:19 — The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
  • Isa 38:19 — The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
  • Josh 4:6 — That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
  • Josh 4:21 — And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
  • Ps 44:1 — We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
  • Ps 44:1 — We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
  • Ps 48:13 — Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
  • Ps 71:18 — Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
  • Ps 78:3 — Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
  • Ps 78:4 — We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
  • Ps 78:6 — That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
  • Ps 145:4 — One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.