Exodus 21:17

The Message

“If someone curses father or mother, the penalty is death.

Cross References

Exodus 20:12

Honor your father and mother so that you’ll live a long time in the land that God, your God, is giving you.

Exodus 21:18

“If a quarrel breaks out and one hits the other with a rock or a fist and the injured one doesn’t die but is confined to bed and then later gets better and can get about on a crutch, the one who hit him is in the clear, except to pay for the loss of time and make sure of complete recovery.

Proverbs 20:20

Anyone who curses father and mother extinguishes light and exists benighted.

Proverbs 30:11

Don’t curse your father or fail to bless your mother.

Proverbs 30:17

An eye that disdains a father and despises a mother— that eye will be plucked out by wild vultures and consumed by young eagles.

Deuteronomy 21:18

When a man has a stubborn son, a real rebel who won’t do a thing his mother and father tell him, and even though they discipline him he still won’t obey, his father and mother shall forcibly bring him before the leaders at the city gate and say to the city fathers, “This son of ours is a stubborn rebel; he won’t listen to a thing we say. He’s a glutton and a drunk.”

Deuteronomy 21:21

Then all the men of the town are to throw rocks at him until he’s dead. You will have purged the evil pollution from among you. All Israel will hear what’s happened and be in awe. * * *