Exodus 21:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁵ And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Anyone who violently hits their father or mother should be put to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Whoever strikes his father or mother shall die a death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ He that striketh his father or mother shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:15 Cross References

Exodus 21:14

And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

Exodus 21:16

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curseth their father, And doth not bless their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

Deuteronomy 27:24

Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour in secret. And all the people shall say, Amen.

1 Timothy 1:9

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,