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Christian Standard Bible ®

Exodus 21:17

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Mother;   Music;   Parents;   Punishment;   Quotations and Allusions;   Thompson Chain Reference - Blasphemy-Profanity;   Cursing;   The Topic Concordance - Curses;   Execution;   Parents;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Father;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abortion;   Family Life and Relations;   Punishment;   Teach, Teacher;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Curse;   Murder;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Children;   Father;   Law;   Punishments;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blessing and Cursing;   Capital Punishment;   Crimes and Punishments;   Exodus, Book of;   Hammurabi;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Child, Children;   Covenant, Book of the;   Ethics;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sabbatical Year;   Sin;   Ten Commandments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boyhood ;   Curse;   Moses ;   Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   Septuagint;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Children;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Father;   Law of Moses;   Punishments;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Curse;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Education;   Husband;   Mother;   Murder;   Punishments;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Blessing and Cursing;   Capital Punishment;   Cursing;   Ethics;   Family and Family Life;   Father;   Fear of Man;   Miracle;   Mother;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
King James Version
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Lexham English Bible
"‘And one who curses his father or his mother will surely be put to death.
New Century Version
"Anyone who says cruel things to his father or mother must be put to death.
New English Translation
"Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.
Amplified Bible
"Whoever curses his father or his mother or treats them contemptuously must be put to death.
New American Standard Bible
"And one who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee that curseth his father or his mother, shall die the death.
Legacy Standard Bible
"And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Contemporary English Version
Death is the punishment for cursing your father or mother.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Whoever curses his father or mother must be put to death.
Darby Translation
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Whoever curses their father or mother must be killed.
English Standard Version
"Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
George Lamsa Translation
He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Good News Translation
"Whoever curses his father or his mother is to be put to death.
Literal Translation
And he who curses his father or his mother, dying he shall die.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who so curseth father and mother, shal dye the death.
American Standard Version
And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Bible in Basic English
Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he that curseth his father or mother, shalbe put to death for it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
King James Version (1611)
And hee that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely bee put to death.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
(21:16) He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.
English Revised Version
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Berean Standard Bible
Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that stelith a man, and sillith hym, if he is conuyt of the gilt, die bi deeth.
Young's Literal Translation
`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
Update Bible Version
And he that curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
World English Bible
"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
New King James Version
"And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
New Living Translation
"Anyone who dishonors father or mother must be put to death.
New Life Bible
Whoever curses his father or his mother will be put to death.
New Revised Standard
Whoever curses father or mother shall be put to death.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he who revileth his father or his mother, shall, surely be put to death.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.
Revised Standard Version
"Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
THE MESSAGE
"If someone curses father or mother, the penalty is death.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Contextual Overview

12“Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death. 13But if he did not intend any harm, and yet God allowed it to happen, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee. 14If a person schemes and willfully acts against his neighbor to murder him, you must take him from my altar to be put to death. 15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death. 16“Whoever kidnaps a person must be put to death, whether he sells him or the person is found in his possession. 17“Whoever curses his father or his mother must be put to death.18“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or his fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed, 19if he can later get up and walk around outside leaning on his staff, then the one who struck him will be exempt from punishment. Nevertheless, he must pay for his lost work time and provide for his complete recovery. 20“When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod, and the slave dies under his abuse, the owner must be punished. 21However, if the slave can stand up after a day or two, the owner should not be punished because he is his owner’s property.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

curseth: or, revilteth, Leviticus 20:9, Deuteronomy 27:16, Proverbs 20:20, Proverbs 30:11, Proverbs 30:17, Matthew 15:3-6, Mark 7:10, Mark 7:11

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:12 - Honour Exodus 22:28 - nor curse Leviticus 19:3 - fear Deuteronomy 21:18 - obey the voice 2 Samuel 15:3 - there is Ezekiel 22:7 - set Matthew 15:4 - He

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these events, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:
Genesis 16:9
The angel of the Lord said to her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
Genesis 16:11
The angel of the Lord said to her, “You have conceived and will have a son. You will name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your cry of affliction.
Genesis 21:1
The Lord came to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.
Genesis 21:2
Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.
Genesis 21:4
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
Genesis 21:13
and I will also make a nation of the slave’s son because he is your offspring.”
Genesis 21:14
Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 46:3
God said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he that curseth his father, or his mother,.... Though he does not smite them with his hand, or with any instrument in it, yet if he smites them with his tongue, reviles and reproaches them, speaks evil of them, wishes dreadful imprecations upon them, curses them by the name explained, as the Targum of Jonathan calls it, by the name Jehovah, wishing the Lord would curse them, or that his curse might light upon them, see Proverbs 20:20,

shall surely be put to death; or be killed with casting stones on him, as the Targum of Jonathan, or with stoning; so Jarchi, who observes, that wherever it is said, "his blood be upon him", it is meant of stoning, as it is of the man that curses his father or his mother,

Leviticus 20:9 which was after this manner, the place of stoning was two cubits high, to which the malefactor with his hands bound was brought; from whence one of the witnesses against him cast him down headlong, of which, if he did not die, then they took up stones and cast on him, and if he died not through them, then all Israel came and stoned him; that is, the multitude upon the spot: this verse in the Septuagint version follows Exodus 21:15, with which it agrees, both respecting the same persons.


 
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