Parallel Verses

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.

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.

Darby Translation

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth 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 six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all which is in them, and he will rest in the seventh day: for this Jehovah praised the seventh day and consecrated it. 12 Honor thy father and thy mother, so that thy days shall be prolon upon the land which Jehovah thy gave to thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill.

Cross References

Leviticus 19:3

Ye shall fear each his mother and his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall watch: I am Jehovah your God.

Luke 18:20

Thou knowest the commands, Thou shouldest not commit adultery, Thou shouldest not kill, Thou shouldest not steal, Thou shouldest not bear false testimony, Honour thy father and thy mother.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and he reviling father or mother, in death let him die:

Exodus 21:15

And he striking his father and his mother, dying be shall die.

Exodus 21:17

And he making light of his father and his mother, dying, he shall die.

Leviticus 19:32

From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.

Matthew 19:19

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

Mark 10:19

Thou knowest the commands: Thou shouldst not commit adultery; Thou shouldst not kill; Thou shouldst not steal; Thou shouldst not bear false testimony; Thou shouldst not defraud; Honour thy father and mother.

Ephesians 6:1-3

Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just.

Colossians 3:20

Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I took the heavens and the earth to witness against you this day, that perishing, ye shall perish to-morrow from the land which ye are passing over Jordan there to possess it: ye shall not prolong the days upon it, but being destroyed, ye shall be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:40

And watch thou his laws and his commands which I am commanding thee this day, that it shall be good to thee and to thy sons after thee, and that thou shalt prolong the days upon the land that Jehovah thy God gave to thee, all the days.

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee, so that thy days shall be prolonged and so that it shall be good to thee upon the land that Jehovah thy God gave to thee,

Deuteronomy 25:15

A stone complete and just shall be to thee; an ephah complete and just

Deuteronomy 32:47

For it is not an empty word for you, but it is your life; and in this word ye shall prolong the days upon the land which ye pass through Jordan there to inherit it

1 Kings 2:19

And Bathsheba will go to king Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king will rise up to her meeting, and worship to her, and he sat upon his throne, and a throne will be set for the king's mother; and she will sit at his right hand.

2 Kings 2:12

And Elisha saw, and he crying, My father, my father!, the chariot of Israel and his horsemen! and he saw him no more: and he will lay hold upon his garments and rend them into two rents.

Proverbs 1:8-9

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 3:16

Length of days in her right hand; in her left, riches and honor.

Proverbs 15:5

The foolish will deride his father's instruction: and he watching reproof will be crafty.

Proverbs 20:20

He cursing his father and his mother, his lamp shall go out in the midst of darkness.

Proverbs 23:22-25

Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.

Proverbs 28:24

He stripping his father and his mother, and saying, No transgression; is companion to a man destroying.

Proverbs 30:11

A generation will curse its father, and will not bless its mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye shall mock to his father, and despise to obey the mother, the ravens of the valley shall bore it out and the sons of the eagle shall eat it

Malachi 1:6

A son will honor the father, and the servant his lord; and if I a father, where mine honor? and if I their lord, where my fear? said Jehovah of armies to you, O priests despising my name. And ye said, In what did we despise thy name?

Matthew 15:4-6

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, he calumniating father or mother, in death let him die.

Ephesians 5:21

Yielding obedience to one another in the fear of God.

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