Quotes About Tradition

Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ëWhat do these stones mean to you?í

Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ëWhat is the meaning of these stones?í

Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.

On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.

The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.

Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,

Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,

Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,

Remeth, En-gannim, En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez.

Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,

That is why we said, ëLet us take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.

Therefore we said, ëIf they ever say this to us or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the altar of the LORD that our fathers made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.í

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORDís commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.

But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

You who ride white donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, and you who travel the road, ponder

After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel

that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

So he returned and told his father and mother, “I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”

But his father and mother replied, “Canít you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”

Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.