Parallel Verses

NET Bible

Remember the ancient days; bear in mind the years of past generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.

New American Standard Bible

“Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of all generations.
Ask your father, and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

Remember the days of old;
consider the years long past.
Ask your father, and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will teach you.

International Standard Version

Remember the days of old, reflect on the years of previous generations. Ask your father, and he'll tell you; your elders will inform you.

A Conservative Version

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified


“Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

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.

Julia Smith Translation

Remember the days of eternity; Discern the years of generation and generation: Ask thy father, and he will announce to thee; Thy old men, and they shall say to thee.

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Remember [the] old days, {the years long past}; ask your father, and he will inform you, your elders and they will tell you.

Modern King James verseion

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Remember the days that are past: consider the years from time to time. Ask thy father and he will show thee; thine elders, and they will tell thee.

New Heart English Bible

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.

The Emphasized Bible

Remember the days of age-past times, Remark the years of many generations, - Ask thy father and he will tell thee, Thine elders and they will say to thee: -

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.

World English Bible

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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:

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

of old
עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

the years
שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

of many
דּר דּור 
Dowr 
Usage: 167

דּר דּור 
Dowr 
Usage: 167

ask
שׁאל שׁאל 
Sha'al 
Usage: 172

and he will shew
נגד 
Nagad 
Usage: 370

זקן 
Zaqen 
Usage: 178

and they will tell

Usage: 0

References

Context Readings

Moses' Song

6 Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your creator? He has made you and established you. 7 Remember the ancient days; bear in mind the years of past generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you. 8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.



Cross References

Psalm 44:1

For the music director; by the Korahites, a well-written song. O God, we have clearly heard; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in ancient times.

Exodus 13:14

In the future, when your son asks you 'What is this?' you are to tell him, 'With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery.

Isaiah 63:11

His people remembered the ancient times. Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea, along with the shepherd of his flock? Where is the one who placed his holy Spirit among them,

Deuteronomy 4:32

Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

Judges 6:13

Gideon said to him, "Pardon me, but if the Lord is with us, why has such disaster overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, 'Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?' But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian."

Job 8:8-10

"For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

Psalm 10:6

He says to himself, "I will never be upended, because I experience no calamity."

Psalm 77:5-6

I thought about the days of old, about ancient times.

Psalm 77:8

Has his loyal love disappeared forever? Has his promise failed forever?

Psalm 77:11-12

I will remember the works of the Lord. Yes, I will remember the amazing things you did long ago!

Psalm 78:3-4

What we have heard and learned -- that which our ancestors have told us --

Psalm 119:52

I remember your ancient regulations, O Lord, and console myself.

Isaiah 46:9

Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! Truly I am God, I have no peer; I am God, and there is none like me,

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