Genesis 18:19

18:19 I have chosen him ¹  so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep ²  the way of the Lord by doing ³  what is right and just. Then the Lord will give ⁴  to Abraham what he promised ⁵  him.”

Deuteronomy 4:9

Reminder of the Horeb Covenant

4:9 Again, however, pay very careful attention, ⁶  lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 6:7

6:7 and you must teach ⁷  them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, ⁸  as you lie down, and as you get up.

Psalms 78:3-6

78:3 What we have heard and learned ⁹  –

that which our ancestors ¹⁰  have told us –

78:4 we will not hide from their ¹¹  descendants.

We will tell the next generation

about the Lord’s praiseworthy acts, ¹² 

about his strength and the amazing things he has done.

78:5 He established a rule ¹³  in Jacob;

he set up a law in Israel.

He commanded our ancestors

to make his deeds known to their descendants, ¹⁴ 

78:6 so that the next generation, children yet to be born,

might know about them.

They will grow up and tell their descendants about them. ¹⁵ 

Ephesians 6:4

6:4 Fathers, ¹⁶  do not provoke your children to anger, ¹⁷  but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:2

6:2 “Honor your father and mother,” ¹⁸  which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

Ephesians 3:15

3:15 from ¹⁹  whom every family ²⁰  in heaven and on the earth is named.

¹ tn Heb “For I have known him.” The verb יָדַע (yada’) here means “to recognize and treat in a special manner, to choose” (see Amos 3:2). It indicates that Abraham stood in a special covenantal relationship with the Lord.

² tn Heb “and they will keep.” The perfect verbal form with vav consecutive carries on the subjective nuance of the preceding imperfect verbal form (translated “so that he may command”).

³ tn The infinitive construct here indicates manner, explaining how Abraham’s children and his household will keep the way of the Lord.

⁴ tn Heb “bring on.” The infinitive after לְמַעַן (lÿma’an) indicates result here.

⁵ tn Heb “spoke to.”

⁶ tn Heb “watch yourself and watch your soul carefully.”

⁷ tn Heb “repeat” (so NLT). If from the root I שָׁנַן (shanan), the verb means essentially to “engrave,” that is, “to teach incisively” (Piel); note NAB “Drill them into your children.” Cf. BDB 1041-42 s.v.

⁸ tn Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”

⁹ tn Or “known.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 5, 8, 12, 57).

¹¹ tn The pronominal suffix refers back to the “fathers” (“our ancestors,” v. 3).

¹² tn Heb “to a following generation telling the praises of the Lord.” “Praises” stand by metonymy for the mighty acts that prompt worship. Cf. Ps 9:14.

¹³ tn The Hebrew noun עֵדוּת (’edut) refers here to God’s command that the older generation teach their children about God’s mighty deeds in the nation’s history (see Exod 10:2; Deut 4:9; 6:20-25).

¹⁴ tn Heb “which he commanded our fathers to make them known to their sons.” The plural suffix “them” probably refers back to the Lord’s mighty deeds (see vv. 3-4).

¹⁵ tn Heb “in order that they might know, a following generation, sons [who] will be born, they will arise and will tell to their sons.”

¹⁶ tn Or perhaps “Parents” (so TEV, CEV). The plural οἱ πατέρες (Joi patere", “fathers”) can be used to refer to both the male and female parent (BDAG 786 s.v. πατήρ 1.b).

¹⁷ tn Or “do not make your children angry.” BDAG 780 s.v. παροργίζω states “make angry.” The Greek verb in Col 3:21 is a different one with a slightly different nuance.

¹⁸ sn A quotation from Exod 20:12 and Deut 5:16.

¹⁹ tn Or “by.”

²⁰ tn Or “the whole family.”