Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

New American Standard Bible

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

King James Version

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Holman Bible

Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

International Standard Version

"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

A Conservative Version

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

American Standard Version

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Amplified

“Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land the Lord your God gives you.

Bible in Basic English

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Julia Smith Translation

Honor thy father and thy mother, so that thy days shall be prolon upon the land which Jehovah thy gave to thee.

King James 2000

Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving you.

Modern King James verseion

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

NET Bible

"Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

New Heart English Bible

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

The Emphasized Bible

Honour thy father, and thy mother, - that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil, which Yahweh thy God is about to give unto thee.

Webster

Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

World English Bible

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Youngs Literal Translation

'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּבד כּבד 
Kabad 
Usage: 114

and thy mother
אם 
'em 
Usage: 220

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

may be long
ארך 
'arak 
Usage: 34

upon the land
אדמה 
'adamah 
Usage: 225

which the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

Images Exodus 20:12

Context Readings

The Ten Commandments

11 For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill.


Cross References

Leviticus 19:3

Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God.

Luke 18:20

Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.

Exodus 21:15

And he that striketh his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death.

Exodus 21:17

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death.

Leviticus 19:32

Before the hoary head thou shalt rise up, and shalt honour the face of an old man; and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

Matthew 19:19

Honour thy father and thy mother, and Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Mark 10:19

Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.

Ephesians 6:1-3

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it: ye shall not prolong your days on it, but shall be utterly destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:40

And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days on the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for ever.

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may be well with thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 25:15

A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 32:47

For it is no vain word for you, but it is your life, and through this word ye shall prolong your days on the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it.

1 Kings 2:19

And Bathsheba went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne; and he caused a throne to be set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right hand.

2 Kings 2:12

And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father! the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof! And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own garments and rent them in two pieces.

Proverbs 1:8-9

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

Proverbs 3:16

Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand riches and honour.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despiseth his father's instruction; but he that regardeth reproof becometh prudent.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.

Proverbs 23:22-25

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Proverbs 28:24

Whoso robbeth his father and his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocketh at a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Malachi 1:6

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests, that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

Matthew 15:4-6

For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

Ephesians 5:21

submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

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