Teaching the Next Generation

Deuteronomy 6:20-25

"Some day your child will ask you, 'What is the meaning of the instructions, laws and rulings which ADONAI our God has laid down for you?'

Then you will tell your child, 'We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and ADONAI brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

ADONAI worked great and terrible signs and wonders against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household, before our very eyes.

He brought us out from there in order to bring us to the land he had sworn to our ancestors that he would give us.

ADONAI ordered us to observe all these laws, to fear ADONAI our God, always for our own good, so that he might keep us alive, as we are today.

It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to obey all these mitzvot before ADONAI our God, just as he ordered us to do.'"