Deuteronomy 32:7
in Deuteronomy 32Remember 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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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
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.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 32
Commentary
2 notes on this verseWho then would be so presumptuous and blind as to dare to trust in his own judgment and discretion when the vessel of election testifies that he needed to confer with his fellow apostles? From this it is clearly proven that the Lord shows the way of perfection to no one who has the means of being educated but who disdains the teaching and the instruction of the elders and who considers as insignificant that saying which ought to be diligently observed: "Ask your father, and he will declare it to you, your elders, and they will tell you."
This site's exposition
Remember the days of old, consider the years
This is the last of the fourteen places where Deuteronomy says remember, and nine occurrences of forget stand against them across the book. What is to be held on to is an event rather than a doctrine, and the method given is to ask thy father and thy elders. The men being addressed were children or unborn when Egypt happened, so the song lays on them a duty to question the generation that was there.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| זְכֹר֙ | zekhor | remember | H2142 → | 230 times |
| יְמ֣וֹת | yemot | [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| עוֹלָ֔ם | olam | antiquity | H5769 → | 438 times |
| בִּ֖ינוּ | binu | consider | H995 → | 170 times |
| שְׁנ֣וֹת | shenot | [the] years of | H8141 → | 877 times |
| דּוֹר־ | dor- | a generation | H1755 → | 167 times |
| וָד֑וֹר | vador | and a generation | H1755 → | 167 times |
| שְׁאַ֤ל | sheal | ask | H7592 → | 171 times |
| אָבִ֙יךָ֙ | ʾavikha | father your | H1 → | 1212 times |
| וְיַגֵּ֔דְךָ | veyagedekha | so he will tell you | H5046 → | 370 times |
| זְקֵנֶ֖יךָ | zekeneicha | old [people] your | H2205 → | 178 times |
| וְיֹ֥אמְרוּ | veyomeru | so they may say | H559 → | 5305 times |
| לָֽךְ׃ | lakh | to <the> you |
זְכֹר֙remember
zekhorH2142 →230 times
יְמ֣וֹת[the] days of
yemotH3117 →2304 times
עוֹלָ֔םantiquity
olamH5769 →438 times
בִּ֖ינוּconsider
binuH995 →170 times
שְׁנ֣וֹת[the] years of
shenotH8141 →877 times
דּוֹר־a generation
dor-H1755 →167 times
וָד֑וֹרand a generation
vadorH1755 →167 times
שְׁאַ֤לask
shealH7592 →171 times
אָבִ֙יךָ֙father your
ʾavikhaH1 →1212 times
וְיַגֵּ֔דְךָso he will tell you
veyagedekhaH5046 →370 times
זְקֵנֶ֖יךָold [people] your
zekeneichaH2205 →178 times
וְיֹ֥אמְרוּso they may say
veyomeruH559 →5305 times
לָֽךְ׃to <the> you
lakh
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 46:9Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
it leads to
- Isaiah 45:21–22
Speak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but…
- Isaiah 42:9
Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
- Isaiah 46:5
To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal? To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike?
- Psalms 111:4
He has caused His wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.
- Deuteronomy 33:26
“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
- Isaiah 45:21–22
Through
Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
it leads to
- Psalms 78:3–6
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- Exodus 13:14–15
In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Joel 1:3
Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
- Psalms 78:3–6
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on John Cassian, CONFERENCE 2.15.3; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.