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Joel 1:3
Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.
Joel 1:3 · Bible in Basic English
Joel 1:3 in other translations
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.
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In context
1 The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
2 Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
3 Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.
4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.
5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.
6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.
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