Parallel Verses

Amplified

‘If anyone curses his father or mother, he shall most certainly be put to death; he has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on him [that is, he bears full responsibility for the consequences].

New American Standard Bible

If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his bloodguiltiness is upon him.

King James Version

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Holman Bible

“If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on his own hands.

International Standard Version

"Anyone who curses his father or mother is certainly to be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother, so his guilt will remain his responsibility."

A Conservative Version

For he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

American Standard Version

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Bible in Basic English

Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.

Darby Translation

Whatever man revileth his father and his mother shall certainly be put to death: he hath reviled his father and his mother; his blood is upon him.

Julia Smith Translation

When a man, a man who shall lightly esteem his father and his mother, dying, he shall die: he lightly esteemed ha father and his mother: his blood is upon him.

King James 2000

For every one that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Lexham Expanded Bible

" 'If [there is] {anyone} who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother--his blood [is] upon him.

Modern King James verseion

And any man who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be on him.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"'Whosoever curseth his father or mother, shall die for it, his blood on his head, because he hath cursed his father or mother.

NET Bible

"'If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

New Heart English Bible

"'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

The Emphasized Bible

When, any man whatsoever, curseth his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death, - his father or his mother, hath he cursed, his blood, shall be upon himself.

Webster

For every one that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

World English Bible

"'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Youngs Literal Translation

For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood is on him.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

one
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

or his mother
אם 
'em 
אם 
'em 
Usage: 220
Usage: 220

מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

put to death
מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

References

American

Hastings

Smith

Context Readings

Family And Sexual Offenses

8 You shall keep My statutes and do them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you. 9 ‘If anyone curses his father or mother, he shall most certainly be put to death; he has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on him [that is, he bears full responsibility for the consequences]. 10 ‘The man who commits adultery with another’s wife, even his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall most certainly be put to death.


Cross References

Exodus 21:17

“Whoever curses his father or his mother or treats them contemptuously must be put to death.

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘Cursed is he who dishonors (treats with contempt) his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Matthew 15:4

For God said [through Moses], Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of or insults or treats improperly father or mother is to be put to death.’

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother [with respect and gratitude]’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of his father or mother must be put to death’;

Judges 9:24

so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal (Gideon) might come [on the guilty], and that their [innocent] blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who had killed them, and on the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands (encouraged him) to kill his brothers.

2 Samuel 1:16

David said to the [fallen] man, “Your blood is on your own head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the Lord’s anointed.’”

Proverbs 20:20


Whoever curses his father or his mother,
His lamp [of life] will be extinguished in time of darkness.

Proverbs 30:11


There is a generation (class of people) that curses its father
And does not bless its mother.

Proverbs 30:17


The eye that mocks a father
And scorns a mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young vultures will devour it.

Leviticus 20:11-13

The man who lies [intimately] with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall most certainly be put to death; their blood is on them.

Leviticus 20:16

If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall most certainly be put to death; their blood is on them.

Leviticus 20:27

‘A man or woman who is a medium [who pretends to consult the dead] or who is a spiritist shall most certainly be put to death, and be stoned with stones; their blood is on them.’”

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will return his bloody deeds upon his own head, because he struck down two men more righteous and honorable than he and killed them with the sword, without my father David knowing: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

Joshua 2:19

But if anyone goes out the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head [that is, his own responsibility], and we shall be blameless and free [from our oath]; however, if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.

Matthew 27:25

And all the people answered, “Let [the responsibility for] His blood be on us and on our children!”

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