Exodus 21:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Whoever strikes father or mother shall be put to death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Common English Bible

Anyone who violently hits their father or mother should be put to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Whoever strikes his father or mother shall die a death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He that striketh his father or mother shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:15 Cross References

Exodus 21:14

But if someone willfully attacks and kills another by treachery, you shall take the killer from my altar for execution.

Exodus 21:16

“Whoever kidnaps a person, whether that person has been sold or is still held in possession, shall be put to death.

Proverbs 30:11

There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Deuteronomy 27:24

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who strikes down a neighbor in secret.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

1 Timothy 1:9

this means understanding that the law is laid down not for the righteous but for the lawless and disobedient, for the godless and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers,