Then Joseph took them from his knees and bowed with his face down to the ground.
Leviticus 19:3 - Tree of Life Version “Each one of you is to respect his mother and his father, and keep My Shabbatot. I am Adonai 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 knees and bowed with his face down to the ground.
You made known to them Your holy Shabbat and ordained for them mitzvot, statutes and Torah by the hand of Your servant Moses.
See, Adonai has given you the Shabbat, so on the sixth day He gives you the bread of two days. Let every man stay in his place, and let no man go out on the seventh day.”
“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Adonai your God is giving you.
“Anyone who strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.
“Whoever curses his father or his mother must surely be put to death.
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Listen to your father who begot you and do not despise your mother when she is old.
There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.
The eye that mocks a father and scorns obeying a mother— will be pecked out by ravens of the valley and eaten by young vultures!
If you turn back your foot from Shabbat, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call Shabbat a delight, the holy day of Adonai honorable, If you honor it, not going your own ways, not seeking your own pleasure, nor speaking your usual speech,
I also gave them My Shabbatot, as a sign between Me and them, so that they would know that I am Adonai who made them holy.
“For I am Adonai your God. Therefore, sanctify yourselves, and be holy, for I am holy. You are not to defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
In the fifth year you may eat its fruit. So it will yield its increase to you. I am Adonai your God.
“You are to keep My Shabbatot, and reverence My Sanctuary. I am Adonai.
“Do not turn to those who are mediums or to soothsayers. Do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am Adonai your God.
The outsider dwelling among you should be to you as the native-born among you. You should love him as yourself—for you dwelled as outsiders in the land of Egypt. I am Adonai your God.
“Work may be done for six days, but the seventh day is a Shabbat of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You are to do no work—it is a Shabbat to Adonai in all your dwellings.
“You are to keep My Shabbatot and have reverence for My Sanctuary. I am Adonai.
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. So if I am Father, where is My honor? If I am Master, where is My reverence?”—says Adonai-Tzva’ot—“you, kohanim who despise My Name!” But you say, “How did we despise Your Name?”
‘Cursed is the one who dishonors his father or mother.’ Then all the people are to say, ‘Amen.’
‘Honor your father and your mother just as Adonai your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and it may go well with you in the land Adonai your God is giving you.
Besides, we are used to having human fathers as instructors—and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?