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Psalm 78:6

that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

4We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
5For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
6that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
7that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,
8and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
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Children still to be born widen the horizon of this verse: those who receive God’s teaching are meant to become people who pass it on.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 22:31They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.Both passages look toward people yet to be born, who are to hear what is declared about God.
Psalm 71:18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to …Both passages look beyond the present generation toward those who will hear of God’s strength and deeds.
Joel 1:3Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.Both describe children telling their own children, extending what has been heard across successive generations.
Psalm 102:18This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise the LORD,Both look toward a generation yet to exist, preserving knowledge of God for people who will come after.
Psalm 90:16Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.Both concern children knowing God’s work: Psalm 78 through teaching, Psalm 90 through a prayer that his glory appear to them.
Esther 9:28and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim …Both concern remembrance across generations, with children carrying forward what their elders have received.
Deuteronomy 4:10the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they …Both connect hearing God’s teaching with passing it to children, so knowledge of him continues beyond those who first heard.
Joshua 22:24–25“If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, “What have you to do …Both look ahead to children’s relationship with Israel’s God, though Joshua voices concern about exclusion rather than a command to teach.
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Encouragement

You do not have to see every generation that follows to have a part in teaching them. God’s purpose here reaches children whose names their teachers cannot yet know.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).