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Children: Instruction of Exodus 13:8–10, 14–16

And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ / It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt. / Therefore you shall keep this statute at the appointed time year after year.

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Children: Instruction of Deuteronomy 4:9, 10

Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren. / The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”

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Children: Instruction of Deuteronomy 6:6–9

These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. / And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. / Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

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Children: Instruction of Deuteronomy 11:19, 20

Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. / Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,

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Children: Instruction of Deuteronomy 31:12, 13

Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law. / Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

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Children: Instruction of Joshua 8:35

There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua failed to read before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who lived among them.

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Children: Instruction of Psalm 34:11

Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

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Children: Instruction of Psalm 78:1–8

A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth. / I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning, / that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

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Children: Instruction of Proverbs 1:1, 4

These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel, / To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,

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Children: Instruction of Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

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Children: Instruction of Isaiah 28:9, 10

Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast? / For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”

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Children: Instruction of Joel 1:3

Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

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Children: Instruction of John 21:15

When they had finished eating, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love Me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “You know I love You.” Jesus replied, “Feed My lambs.”

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Children: Instruction of Acts 22:3

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.

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