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12 “Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land the Lord your God gives you.

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17 “Whoever [a]curses his father or his mother or treats them contemptuously must be put to death.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:17 The one who dishonors his parents in this way also dishonors God by violating God’s created order of honor.

‘If anyone curses his father or mother, he shall most certainly be put to death; he has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on him [that is, he bears full responsibility for the consequences].

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16 ‘Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that your days [on the earth] may be prolonged and so that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

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