Joel 1:3
Good News Translation
Tell your children about it; they will tell their children, who in turn will tell the next generation.

New Revised Standard Version
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Contemporary English Version
Tell our children! Let it be told to our grandchildren and their children too.

New American Bible
Report it to your children. Have your children report it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

Exodus 10:1,2 And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao; for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants: that I may work these my signs in him, . . .

Exodus 13:14 And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What is this? thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Deuteronomy 6:7 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

Joshua 4:6,7,21,22 That it may be a sign among you: and when your children shall ask you tomorrow, saying: What means these stones? . . .

Psalm 44:1 Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God. [1] Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding.

Psalm 71:18 And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,

Psalm 78:3-8 How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us. . . .

Psalm 145:4 Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.

Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make the truth known to the children.

Context
The Invasion of Locusts
2Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers? 3Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.4That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed.…
Cross References
Exodus 10:2
And thou mayst tell in the ears of thy sons, and of thy grandsons, how often I have plagued the Egyptians, and wrought my signs amongst them: and you may know that I am the Lord.

Psalm 78:4
They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done.

Joel 1:2
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