Deuteronomy 32:7
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.
Deuteronomy 32:7 in other translations
| 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. |
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| WEB | 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. |
| 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. |
| YLT | Remember days of old--Understand the years of many generations--Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee: |
| DARBY | Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew 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. |
| Webster | Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. |
What does Deuteronomy 32:7 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:7-14
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Deuteronomy 32:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 32:7
- Psalms 78:3-4
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 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.
- Psalms 44:1
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. 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.
- Job 8:8-10
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
- Isaiah 46:9
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
- Psalms 77:5-6
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
- Deuteronomy 4:32
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
- Exodus 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:
- Isaiah 63:11
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
- Judges 6:13
And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
- Psalms 77:11-12
I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
- Psalms 119:52
I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.
- Psalms 10:6
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 32:6
Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
- Deuteronomy 32:7
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.
- Deuteronomy 32:8
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Acuérdate de los tiempos antiguos; considerad los años de generación y generación: pregunta á tu padre, que él te declarará; á tus viejos, y ellos te dirán. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Souviens-toi des jours d’autrefois, considérez les années de génération en génération; interroge ton père, et il te le déclarera, tes anciens, et ils te le diront. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Gedenke der Tage der Vorzeit, merket auf die Jahre von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht; frage deinen Vater, und er wird es dir kundtun, deine Ältesten, und sie werden es dir sagen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Memento dierum antiquorum, cogita generationes singulas: interroga patrem tuum, et annuntiabit tibi: majores tuos, et dicent tibi. |