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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
כי ישאלך בנך מחר לאמר מה העדת והחקים והמשפטים אשר צוה יהוה אלהינו אתכם
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
ky ySHAlk bnk mKHr lAmr mh h`dt vhKHqym vhmSHptym ASHr TSvh yhvh Alhynv Atkm

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
cum interrogaverit te filius tuus cras dicens quid sibi volunt testimonia haec et caerimoniae atque iudicia quae praecepit Dominus Deus noster nobis

King James Variants
American King James Version   
And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you?
King James 2000 (out of print)   
And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you?
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
Authorized (King James) Version   
And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?
New King James Version   
“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the Lord our God has commanded you?’
21st Century King James Version   
“And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, ‘What mean the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which the Lord our God hath commanded you?’

Other translations
American Standard Version   
When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?
Darby Bible Translation   
When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?’
God's Word   
In the future your children will ask you, "What do these regulations, laws, and rules which the LORD our God commanded you mean to you?"
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
When your son asks you in the future, 'What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances, which the LORD our God has commanded you?'
International Standard Version   
"When your son asks you in the future, 'What is the meaning of the instructions, decrees, and ordinances that the LORD our God commanded you?'
NET Bible   
When your children ask you later on, "What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD our God commanded you?"
New American Standard Bible   
"When your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the LORD our God commanded you?'
New International Version   
In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the LORD our God has commanded you?"
New Living Translation   
"In the future your children will ask you, 'What is the meaning of these laws, decrees, and regulations that the LORD our God has commanded us to obey?'
Webster's Bible Translation   
And when thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
The World English Bible   
When your son asks you in time to come, saying, "What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?"
EasyEnglish Bible   
One day, your children may say to you, ‘Please tell us about the rules and laws that the Lord our God commanded us to obey.’
Young‘s Literal Translation   
`When thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?
New Life Version   
“In time to come your son will ask you, ‘What do all the Laws mean which the Lord told you?’
The Voice Bible   
You’ll have conversations about this with your children in the future, and this is how they should go: Child: What are these precedents and rules and judgments the Eternal our God commanded you to obey?
Living Bible   
“In the years to come when your son asks you, ‘What is the purpose of these laws which the Lord our God has given us?’
New Catholic Bible   
In the future when your son asks you, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the Lord, our God, has commanded of you,”
Legacy Standard Bible   
“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which Yahweh our God commanded you?’
Jubilee Bible 2000   
And when tomorrow thy son asks thee, saying, What are the testimonies and the statutes and the rights, which the LORD our God has commanded you?
Christian Standard Bible   
“When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?’
Amplified Bible © 1954   
When your son asks you in time to come, What is the meaning of the testimonies and statutes and precepts which the Lord our God has commanded you?
New Century Version   
In the future when your children ask you, “What is the meaning of the laws, commands, and rules the Lord our God gave us?”
The Message   
The next time your child asks you, “What do these requirements and regulations and rules that God, our God, has commanded mean?” tell your child, “We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt and God powerfully intervened and got us out of that country. We stood there and watched as God delivered miracle-signs, great wonders, and evil-visitations on Egypt, on Pharaoh and his household. He pulled us out of there so he could bring us here and give us the land he so solemnly promised to our ancestors. That’s why God commanded us to follow all these rules, so that we would live reverently before God, our God, as he gives us this good life, keeping us alive for a long time to come.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
When your son asks you in the future, “What are these testimonies and statutes and ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded for you?”
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
When your children ask you in time to come, “What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?”
Good News Translation®   
“In times to come your children will ask you, ‘Why did the Lord our God command us to obey all these laws?’
Wycliffe Bible   
And when thy son shall ask thee tomorrow, that is, in time to coming, and shall say, What will these witnessings, and ceremonies, and dooms to themselves, which our Lord God commanded to us? (And when thy son, or thy daughter, shall ask thee tomorrow, that is, in the time to come, and shall say, What is the meaning of these testimonies, and statutes, and laws, or judgements, which the Lord our God hath commanded us to obey?)
Contemporary English Version   
Someday your children will ask, “Why did the Lord give us these laws and teachings?”
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord our God has commanded you?’
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
“When your children ask you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?’
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
When your children ask you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?’
Common English Bible © 2011   
In the future, your children will ask you, “What is the meaning of the laws, the regulations, and the case laws that the Lord our God commanded you?”
Amplified Bible © 2015   
“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and statutes and judgments (precepts) which the Lord our God has commanded you?’
English Standard Version Anglicised   
“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Later on, when your son asks you, “What do these decrees and statutes and ordinances mean?” which the Lord, our God, has enjoined on you,
New American Standard Bible   
“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the provisions and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?’
The Expanded Bible   
In the future when your children ask you, “What is the meaning of the laws, ·commands [statutes; ordinances; requirements], and rules the Lord our God gave us?”
Tree of Life Version   
“When your son asks you in time to come, saying ‘What are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances that Adonai our God commanded you?’
Revised Standard Version   
“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord our God has commanded you?’
New International Reader's Version   
Later on, your child might ask you, “What is the meaning of the terms, rules and laws the Lord our God has commanded you to obey?”
BRG Bible   
And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?
Complete Jewish Bible   
“Some day your child will ask you, ‘What is the meaning of the instructions, laws and rulings which Adonai our God has laid down for you?’
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
When your children ask you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?’
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
And when thy ben asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the edut, and the chukkim, and the mishpatim which Hashem Eloheinu hath commanded you?
Names of God Bible   
In the future your children will ask you, “What do these regulations, laws, and rules which Yahweh our Elohim commanded you mean to you?”
Modern English Version   
When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God has commanded you?”
Easy-to-Read Version   
“In the future, your children might ask you, ‘The Lord our God gave you teachings, laws, and rules. What do they mean?’
International Children’s Bible   
In the future your son will ask you, “What do the laws, commands and rules the Lord our God gave us mean?”
Lexham English Bible   
“When your child asks you in the future, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Yahweh our God commanded for you?’
New International Version - UK   
In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the Lord our God has commanded you?’