Exodus 21:17
Good News Translation
"Whoever curses his father or his mother is to be put to death.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever curses father or mother shall be put to death.

Contemporary English Version
Death is the punishment for cursing your father or mother.

New American Bible
Whoever curses father or mother shall be put to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.

curseth or veliteth

Leviticus 20:9 He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.

Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Proverbs 20:20 He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

Proverbs 30:11,17 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. . . .

Matthew 15:3-6 But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition? For God said: . . .

Mark 7:10,11 For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die. . . .

Context
Personal Injury Laws
16He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death. 17He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.18If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:…
Cross References
Matthew 15:4
Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death.

Mark 7:10
For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.

Exodus 21:18
If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

Leviticus 20:9
He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.

Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Proverbs 20:20
He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Exodus 21:16
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