12 Honor your father and your mother(A) so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

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12 “Honor your father and your mother,(A) so that you may live long(B) in the land(C) the Lord your God is giving you.

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Family and Sexual Offenses

“If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death.(A) He has cursed his father or mother; his death is his own fault.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 20:9 Lit his blood on him

“‘Anyone who curses their father(A) or mother(B) is to be put to death.(C) Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.(D)

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16 ‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

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16 “Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother.”(A)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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