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Anyone who curses father or mother shall be put to death;[a](A) and having cursed father or mother, such a one will bear the bloodguilt.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 20:9 Curses father or mother…put to death: this is more than a simple expletive uttered in anger against one’s parents. See note on Ex 21:17.
  2. 20:9–21 Bloodguilt: these penalties, beginning with cursing one’s parents, reflect the concerns of a patriarchal society that the breakdown of one’s relations with one’s parents can lead to the breakdown of all other familial relationships, resulting in the breakdown of society.

“‘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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17 I raised up watchmen[a] for them:
    “Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!”
    But they said, “We will not pay attention!”

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  1. 6:17 Watchmen: the prophets who, like Jeremiah, had upheld God’s moral law.

17 I appointed watchmen(A) over you and said,
    ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’(B)
    But you said, ‘We will not listen.’(C)

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