EXODUS 13:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:”
In days to come, when your son asks you, what does this mean? Say to him: with a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. The anticipation of the child's question appears again — the same structure as Exodus 12:26 and 13:8. The feast, the firstborn consecration, and the unleavened bread are all designed to generate questions. The answer to every question is the same story: the mighty hand of the Lord, Egypt, slavery, liberation. The multi-layered liturgical system of Israel is a comprehensive answer to the child's what does this mean? — every practice has an answer, and every answer leads back to the Exodus. Psalm 78:3–4 commits to telling the next generation what Israel has heard and known, what the ancestors have told. The answer to the child's question is not the transmission of information but the transmission of identity.
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