Then Joseph took them from his father’s knees and bowed with his face to the ground.
Leviticus 19:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep my Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Each of you shall give due respect to his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths holy. I the Lord am your God. American Standard Version (1901) Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God. Common English Bible Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must keep my sabbaths; I am the LORD your God. Catholic Public Domain Version Let each one fear his father and his mother. Observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God. |
Then Joseph took them from his father’s knees and bowed with his face to the ground.
You revealed your holy Sabbath to them, and gave them commands, statutes, and instruction through your servant Moses.
Understand that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he will give you two days’ worth of bread. Each of you stay where you are; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day.’
Honour your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.
As for the eye that ridicules a father and despises obedience to a mother, may ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures eat it.
‘If you avoid desecrating the Sabbath, from doing whatever you want on my holy day; if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy day of the Lord honourable; if you honour it, not going your own ways, seeking your own pleasure, or talking business; ,
I also gave them my Sabbaths to serve as a sign between me and them, so that they would know that I am the Lord who consecrates them.
For I am the Lord your God, so you must consecrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy. Do not defile yourselves by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground.
But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way its yield will increase for you; I am the Lord your God.
‘Do not turn to mediums , or consult spiritists, , or you will be defiled by them; I am the Lord your God.
You will regard the foreigner who resides with you as the native-born among you. You are to love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.
‘Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there is to be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you live.
‘A son honours his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me? says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.’ Yet you ask, ‘How have we despised your name? ’
“The one who dishonours his father or mother is cursed.” And all the people will say, “Amen! ”
Honour your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and so that you may prosper in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
Furthermore, we had human fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn’t we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?