⁶ So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

¹⁸ This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord.

³ Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

⁴ One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength.

¹⁶ Make your work clear to your servants, and your glory to their children.

¹⁸ Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

¹³ Take note of its strong walls, looking well at its fair buildings; so that you may give word of it to the generation which comes after.

³¹ They will come and make his righteousness clear to a people of the future because he has done this.

²⁸ And that those days were to be kept in memory through every generation and every family, in every division of the kingdom and every town, that there might never be a time when these days of Purim would not be kept among the Jews, or when the memory of them would go from the minds of their seed.

²⁴ And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?

²⁵ For the Lord has made Jordan a line of division between us and you, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad; you have no part in the Lord: so your children will make our children give up fearing the Lord.

¹⁰ That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.