Psalm 78:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

For he

Testimony

Exodus 25:16

Exodus 40:3

That they

General references

Joel 1:3

Bible References

For he

He established it for a testimony in Joseph
When He went throughout the land of Egypt.
I heard the language [of One whom] I did not know, saying,

Of old I have known from Your testimonies
That You have founded them forever.

He declares His word to Jacob,
His statutes and His ordinances to Israel.

these are the testimonies (legal provisions) and the statutes and the judgments which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

You shall teach them diligently to your children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths] and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.

You shall teach them [diligently] to your children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths], speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.

[Direct those people] to the law and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is because they have no dawn.

Great in every respect. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God [His very words].

If we accept [as we do] the testimony of men [that is, if we are willing to take the sworn statements of fallible humans as evidence], the testimony of God is greater [far more authoritative]; for this is the testimony of God, that He has testified regarding His Son.

Testimony

You shall put into the ark the Testimony (Ten Commandments) which I will give you.

You shall place the ark of the Testimony there, and you shall screen off the ark [from the Holy Place of God’s Presence] with the veil (partition curtain).

That they

Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.

For I have known (chosen, acknowledged) him [as My own], so that he may teach and command his children and [the sons of] his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is righteous and just, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham what He has promised him.”

“It is the living who give praise and thanks to You, as I do today;
A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to the point of resentment with demands that are trivial or unreasonable or humiliating or abusive; nor by showing favoritism or indifference to any of them], but bring them up [tenderly, with lovingkindness] in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

General references

You shall explain this to your son on that day, saying, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

so that your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’”

Their children, who have not known [the law], will hear and learn to fear [and worship] the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Tell your children about it,
And let your children tell their children,
And their children the next generation.