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Complete Jewish Bible

Leviticus 19:3

"‘Every one of you is to revere his father and mother, and you are to keep my Shabbats; I am Adonai your God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Mother;   Reverence;   Sabbath;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Filial Honour;   Honour;   Mothers;   Respect;   Young People;   The Topic Concordance - Fear;   Parents;   Sabbath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;   Sabbath, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fear;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Proverbs, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gaal;   Mother;   Sabbath;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Authority;   Divination and Magic;   Ethics;   Fear;   Leviticus;   Mother;   Pentateuch;   Reverence;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Child, Children;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lord's Day;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Sabbath;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mother;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Father;   Fear;   Leviticus;   Mother;   Relationships, Family;   Sabbath;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Blessing of Children;   Commandments, the 613;   Ethics;   Family and Family Life;   Father;   Fear of Man;   Sidra;   Woman, Rights of;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and you shall keep my Shabbatot: I am the LORD your God.
King James Version
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Lexham English Bible
Each of you must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.
New Century Version
"‘You must respect your mother and father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
New English Translation
Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
Amplified Bible
'Each of you shall respect his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.
New American Standard Bible
'Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yee shall feare euery man his mother and his father, and shall keepe my Sabbaths: for I am the Lord your God.
Legacy Standard Bible
Every one of you shall fear his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.
Contemporary English Version
Respect your father and your mother, honor the Sabbath, and don't make idols or images. I am the Lord your God.
Darby Translation
Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Each of you must honor your mother and father and keep my special days of rest. I am the Lord your God!
English Standard Version
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
George Lamsa Translation
You must revere every man his father and his mother, and keep my commandments; for I am the LORD your God.
Good News Translation
Each of you must respect your mother and your father, and must keep the Sabbath, as I have commanded. I am the Lord your God.
Christian Standard Bible®
“Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep my Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.
Literal Translation
Each man of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths; I am Jehovah your God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euery one feare his father and his mother. Kepe my holy dayes: for I am the LORDE youre God.
American Standard Version
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.
Bible in Basic English
Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall feare euery man his mother and his father, & kepe my Sabbathes: I am the Lorde your God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and ye shall keep My sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
King James Version (1611)
Yee shall feare euery man his mother, and his father, and keepe my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let every one of you reverence his father and his mother; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
English Revised Version
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Berean Standard Bible
Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must observe My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ech man drede his fadir and his modir. Kepe ye my sabatis; Y am youre Lord God.
Young's Literal Translation
`Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I [am] Jehovah your God.
Update Bible Version
You shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am Yahweh your God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I [am] the LORD your God.
World English Bible
You shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am Yahweh your God.
New King James Version
"Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
New Living Translation
"Each of you must show great respect for your mother and father, and you must always observe my Sabbath days of rest. I am the Lord your God.
New Life Bible
Every one of you must have respect for his mother and his father. And keep My Days of Rest. I am the Lord your God.
New Revised Standard
You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye shall, every one, revere, his father and his mother, And my sabbaths, shall ye observe, - I - Yahweh, am your God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
Revised Standard Version
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
THE MESSAGE
"Every one of you must respect his mother and father. "Keep my Sabbaths. I am God , your God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.

Contextual Overview

1 [In regular years read with Parashah 29, in leap years read separately] Adonai said to Moshe, 2 "Speak to the entire community of Isra'el; tell them, ‘You people are to be holy because I, Adonai your God, am holy. 3 "‘Every one of you is to revere his father and mother, and you are to keep my Shabbats; I am Adonai your God. 4 "‘Do not turn to idols, and do not cast metal gods for yourselves; I am Adonai your God. 5 "‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Adonai , offer it in a way that will make you accepted. 6 It is to be eaten the same day you offer it and the following day; but if any of it remains until the third day, it is to be burned up completely. 7 If any of it is eaten on the third day, it will have become a disgusting thing and will not be accepted; 8 moreover, everyone who eats it will bear the consequences of profaning something holy meant for Adonai — that person will be cut off from his people. 9 "‘When you harvest the ripe crops produced in your land, don't harvest all the way to corners of your field, and don't gather the ears of grain left by the harvesters. 10 Likewise, don't gather the grapes left on the vine or fallen on the ground after harvest; leave them for the poor and the foreigner; I am Adonai your God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fear: Exodus 20:12, Exodus 21:15, Exodus 21:17, Deuteronomy 21:18-21, Deuteronomy 27:16, Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 6:20, Proverbs 6:21, Proverbs 23:22, Proverbs 30:11, Proverbs 30:17, Ezekiel 22:7, Malachi 1:6, Matthew 15:4-6, Ephesians 6:1-3, Hebrews 12:9

keep: Leviticus 26:2, Exodus 16:29, Exodus 20:8, Exodus 31:13-17, Isaiah 56:4-6, Isaiah 58:13, Ezekiel 20:12, Ezekiel 22:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 28:7 - General Genesis 31:35 - my lord Genesis 48:12 - he bowed himself Leviticus 18:2 - General Leviticus 19:30 - keep Leviticus 23:3 - General Leviticus 23:38 - the sabbaths Deuteronomy 5:16 - Honour 1 Kings 2:19 - rose up Proverbs 15:20 - despiseth Jeremiah 17:22 - neither do Matthew 19:19 - Honour Romans 13:7 - fear to Colossians 3:20 - obey

Cross-References

Genesis 19:6
Lot went out to them and stood in the doorway, closing the door behind him,
Genesis 19:8
Look here, I have two daughters who are virgins. Please, let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them what seems good to you; but don't do anything to these men, since they are guests in my house."
Genesis 19:28
and looked out toward S'dom and ‘Amora, scanning the entire plain. There before him the smoke was rising from the land like smoke from a furnace!
Genesis 19:29
But when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Avraham and sent Lot out, away from the destruction, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Genesis 21:8
The child grew and was weaned, and Avraham gave a great banquet on the day that Yitz'chak was weaned.
Exodus 12:15
"‘For seven days you are to eat matzah — on the first day remove the leaven from your houses. For whoever eats hametz [leavened bread] from the first to the seventh day is to be cut off from Isra'el.
Exodus 12:39
They baked matzah loaves from the dough they had brought out of Egypt, since it was unleavened; because they had been driven out of Egypt without time to prepare supplies for themselves.
Judges 6:19
Gid‘on went in, cooked a young goat and made matzot from a bushel of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them out to him under the pistachio tree and presented them.
1 Samuel 28:24
The woman had a fattened calf in the house; she hurried to slaughter it; then she took flour, kneaded it and baked matzah with it.
2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha visited Shunem, and a well-to-do woman living there pressed him to stay and eat a meal. After this, whenever he came through, he stopped there for a meal.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father,.... This has respect to the fifth command, which is the first with promise, and is here referred to first, because a man has his beginning in the world from his parents, and by them he is trained up in the observance of all the other laws of God, equally to be respected; and the fear of them is not servile, but filial, joined with love and affection to them, and includes an inward esteem and reverence of them, an outward respect unto them, a readiness to obey their commands, and giving due and equal honour unto them; :-; Pythagoras, Phocylides, and other Heathens, next to honouring God, exhort to the honour and reverence of parents:

and keep my sabbaths; this is expressed in the plural number, because there were various sabbaths. The seventh day sabbath, and the seventh year sabbath, and the jubilee, which was once in seven times seven years; the seventh day sabbath is chiefly meant: this follows upon the other, because it lay upon parents to teach their children the observance of the sabbath, and to train them up in it; and indeed the fear of them greatly depends on it, for children that are sabbath breakers have seldom much respect to their parents; and besides this suggests, that though children are to honour, reverence, and obey their parents, yet not in anything that is contrary to the laws of God; and, particularly should they suggest to them that sabbaths were not to be observed, they should not hearken to them:

I [am] the Lord your God; that gave them their being, parents being but instruments, and who had a right to enjoin them what laws he pleased; and among the rest had ordered them to observe the sabbath, and which in gratitude they were obliged unto, as well as in point of duty.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 20:8, Exodus 20:12; Exodus 31:13-14. The two laws repeated here are the only laws in the Decalogue which assume a positive shape, all the others being introduced by the formula, “Thou shalt not.” These express two great central points, the first belonging to natural law and the second to positive law, in the maintenance of the well-being of the social body of which Yahweh was the acknowledged king.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 19:3. Ye shall fear every man his mother, c. — Ye shall have the profoundest reverence and respect for them. Genesis 48:12; Genesis 48:12 "Exodus 20:8"; and "Exodus 20:12".


 
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