Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 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
Prayers for Exodus 20:12
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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 the seventh day. Therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day, and sanctified it. 12 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you. 13 You shall not kill.
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Cross References
Leviticus 19:3
You shall each man revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. I am Jehovah your God.
Luke 18:20
You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and your mother.
Mark 7:10
For Moses said, "Honor your father and your mother." And, "Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death."
Exodus 21:15
And he that strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 21:17
And he that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 19:32
You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God. I am Jehovah.
Matthew 19:19
honor your father and mother, and, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Mark 10:19
You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and your mother.
Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 4:26
I call Heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land which you are crossing over Jordan to possess. You shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Deuteronomy 4:40
Therefore, you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you this day, so that it may go well with you and with your sons after you, and so that you may make your days longer upon the earth which Jehovah your God gives you forever.
Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God has commanded you, so that your days may be made longer, and that it may go well with you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 25:15
You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure you shall have, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 32:47
For it is not a vain thing for you, because it is your life. And by this Word you shall prolong your days in the land where you go over Jordan, there to possess it.
1 Kings 2:19
And Bathsheba came in to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat on his throne, and 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, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no more. And he took hold of his clothes and tore them in two pieces.
Proverbs 1:8-9
My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother;
Proverbs 3:16
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand, riches and honor.
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who listens to correction is wise.
Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
Proverbs 23:22-25
Listen to your father who sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 28:24
Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no sin; he shall be a companion to a destroyer.
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that 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 Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. And you say, In what way have we despised Your name?
Matthew 15:4-6
For God commanded, saying, "Honor your father and mother"; and, "He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him die by death."
Ephesians 5:21
submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.