⁶ That the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; Who should arise and tell their children,

¹⁸ This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

³ Tell your children about it, And have your children tell their children, And their children, another generation.

⁴ One generation will commend your works to another, And will declare your mighty acts.

¹⁶ Let your work appear to your servants; Your glory to their children.

¹⁸ Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, Until I have declared your strength to the next generation, Your might to everyone who is to come.

¹³ Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, That you may tell it to the next generation.

³¹ They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, For he has done it.

²⁸ and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memory of them perish from their seed.

²⁴ and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this, [and] of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

²⁵ for Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no portion in Yahweh: so might your children make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.

¹⁰ the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.