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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.

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.

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].

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

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Hastings

Smith

Context Readings

Family And Sexual Offenses

8 And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy. 9 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. 10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

Cross References

Exodus 21:17

Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

Deuteronomy 27:16

Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

Matthew 15:4

For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:

Judges 9:24

So that punishment for the violent attack made on the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, and for their blood, might come on Abimelech, their brother, who put them to death, and on the townsmen of Shechem who gave him their help in putting his brothers to death.

2 Samuel 1:16

And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.

Proverbs 20:20

If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

Leviticus 20:11-13

And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.

Leviticus 20:16

And if a woman goes near a beast and has sex relations with it, you will put an end to the woman and the beast: their blood will be on them.

Leviticus 20:27

Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.

1 Kings 2:32

And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

Joshua 2:19

Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

Matthew 27:25

And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

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