Study it in the app“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ you shall say to him, ‘With a strong hand YHWH brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slaves.”
Whenוְהָיָה כִּיyour sonבִנְךָasks youיִשְׁאָלְךָin time to come,מָחָרsaying,לֵאמֹר‘Whatמַהis this?’זֹּאתyou shall sayוְאָמַרְתָּto him,אֵלָיו‘With a strongבְּחֹזֶקhandיָדYHWHיְהוָהbrought us outהוֹצִיאָנוּof Egypt,מִמִּצְרַיִםfrom the houseמִבֵּיתof slaves.עֲבָדִים
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “haya” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “vin” appearsask
To ask a question.
Where else “yishal” appearsfuture
Later on, in time to come, when children ask.
Where else “machar” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearsstrength
Strength, power.
Where else “chozek” appearspower
Literally "the hand": the strength and control someone has.
Where else “yad” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsbring out
To lead someone out: "I led you out of Egypt".
Where else “hotsia” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bet” appearsslave
A person who belongs to a master and works for him, without freedom of his own.
Where else “avadim” appearsEgypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
13Every first offspring of a donkey you shall ransom with a lamb; and if you do not ransom it, you shall break its neck. And every human firstborn among your sons you shall ransom.
14 · This verse (above)
15When Pharaoh hardened himself against letting us go, YHWH killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of people and the firstborn of animals. That is why I sacrifice to YHWH every first offspring of the womb that is male, but every firstborn of my sons I ransom.’
