Exodus 21:17

Modern English Version

He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Cross References

Exodus 20:12

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Exodus 21:18

If men fight and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

Proverbs 20:20

He who vilifies his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses its father, and does not bless its mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley will pluck it out, and the young vultures will eat it.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have disciplined him, will not listen to them,

Deuteronomy 21:21

Then all the men of his city must stone him with stones, until he dies. In this way you are to remove the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

Deuteronomy 27:16

“Cursed is he who disrespects his father or his mother.” And all the people shall say, “Amen.”