Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

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WEBBE

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

BSB

Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

KJV

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

ASV

Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

BBE

Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

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זְכֹר ze·khor remember H2142 יְמוֹת ye·mot [the] days of H3117 עוֹלָם o·lam antiquity H5769 בִּינוּ bi·nu consider H995 שְׁנוֹת she·not [the] years of H8141 דּוֹר־ dor- a generation H1755 וָדוֹר va·dor and a generation H1755 שְׁאַל she·'al ask H7592 אָבִיךָ 'a·vi·kha father your H1 וְיַגֵּדְךָ ve·ya·ge·de·kha so he will tell you H5046 זְקֵנֶיךָ ze·ke·nei·cha old [people] your H2205 וְיֹאמְרוּ ve·yo·me·ru so they may say H559 לָךְ lakh to (the) you H9031

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 7–14

Moses gives particular instances of God's kindness and concern for them. The eagle's care for her young is a beautiful emblem of Christ's love, who came between Divine justice and our guilty souls, and bare our sins in his own body on the tree. And by the preached gospel, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, He stirs up and prevails upon sinners to leave Satan's bondage. In ver. #(13-14), are emblems of the conquest believers have over their spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, and the world, in and through Christ. Also of their safety and triumph in him; of their happy frames of soul, when they are above the world, and the things of it. This will be the blessed case of spiritual Israel in every sense in the latter day.

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