Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.
New American Standard Bible
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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
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.
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.
Darby Translation
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
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.
Themes
Children » Should » Honor parents
Children » Were required » To honor their parents
Commandment » The ten commandments
The ten commandments » Enumerated
The law of God » Given » To the israelites
natural Life » Obedience to parents, tends to prolong
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 20:12
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Verse Info
Context Readings
The Ten Commandments
11 for in six days LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee. 13 Thou shall not murder.
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Cross References
Leviticus 19:3
Every man shall fear his mother, and his father. And ye shall keep my Sabbaths. I am LORD your God.
Luke 18:20
Thou know the commandments. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not give FALSE testimony. Honor thy father and thy mother.
Mark 7:10
For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.
Exodus 21:15
And he who smites his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Exodus 21:17
And he who curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 19:32
Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shall fear thy God. I am LORD.
Matthew 19:19
Honor the father and mother, and, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.
Mark 10:19
Thou know the commandments. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not testify falsely. Thou shall not defraud. Thou shall honor thy father and mother.
Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in Lord, for this is right.
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in 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 to which ye go over the Jordan to possess it. Ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly destroyed.
Deuteronomy 4:40
And thou shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy sons after thee, and that thou may prolong thy days in the land, which LORD thy God gives thee, fore
Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor thy father and thy mother, as LORD thy God commanded thee, that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.
Deuteronomy 25:15
A perfect and just weight thou shall have, a perfect and just measure thou shall have, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.
Deuteronomy 32:47
For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land where ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
1 Kings 2:19
Bathsheba therefore 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 caused a throne to be set for the king's mother. And she sat on his
2 Kings 2:12
And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen of it! And he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.
Proverbs 1:8-9
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
Proverbs 3:16
Length of days is in her right hand, in her left hand are riches and honor.
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despises his father's correction, but he who regards reproof gets prudence.
Proverbs 20:20
He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Proverbs 28:24
He who robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation who curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And ye say, How have we despised thy na
Matthew 15:4-6
For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.
Ephesians 5:21
submitting yourselves to each other in the fear of Christ.