Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
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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.
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].
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.
Themes
Blood » Illustrative » (on one's own head,) of guilt
Curses » Those that curse their parents
Parents » Those that curse their parents
Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Death penalty » Cursing » Parents
Interlinear
Qalal
'ab
אב
'ab
father, chief, families, desire, fatherless , forefathers , patrimony, prince, principal
Usage: 1214
Muwth
Muwth
Qalal
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 20:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Family And Sexual Offenses
8
Obey my laws, because I am Jehovah and I make you holy.
9 ‘
Cross References
Exodus 21:17
Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.
Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or mother. All the people will say: Amen.
Matthew 15:4
God said, 'Honor your father and mother.' 'He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.'
Mark 7:10
Moses said: 'Honor your father and your mother. He also said: 'He that speaks evil of father or mother must die.'
Judges 9:24
That the cruelty done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be avenged on their brother Abimelech. For he killed them and the men of Shechem helped him kill his brother.
2 Samuel 1:16
David said to him: Your blood is on your head. Your mouth has testified against you. For you admit that you killed Jehovah's anointed.
Proverbs 20:20
He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in obscure darkness.
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curses their father, and doe not bless their mother.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks his father, and rejects obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.
Leviticus 20:11-13
A man who has intercourse with one of his father's wives disgraces his father. Both he and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
Leviticus 20:16
If a woman tries to have sexual relations with an animal, she and the animal must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
Leviticus 20:27
If you claim to receive messages from the dead, you will be put to death by stoning, just as you deserve.
1 Kings 2:32
Jehovah will punish Joab for those murders he committed without my father David's knowledge. Joab killed two innocent men who were better men than he: Abner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa, commander of the army of Judah.
Joshua 2:19
Whoever goes out of your house into the street will be responsible for his own life. We will be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is laid on him.
Matthew 27:25
The people answered: Let his blood be on us, and on our children.