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Good News Translation

Leviticus 19:3

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.

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.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘Every one of you is to revere his father and mother, and you are to keep my Shabbats; I am Adonai 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.
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 The Lord told Moses 2 to say to the community of Israel, "Be holy, because I, the Lord your God, am holy. 3 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. 4 "Do not abandon me and worship idols; do not make gods of metal and worship them. I am the Lord your God. 5 "When you kill an animal for a fellowship offering, keep the regulations that I have given you, and I will accept the offering. 6 The meat must be eaten on the day the animal is killed or on the next day. Any meat left on the third day must be burned, 7 because it is ritually unclean, and if anyone eats it, I will not accept the offering. 8 Any who eat it will be guilty of treating as ordinary what is dedicated to me, and they will no longer be considered my people. 9 "When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields, and do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left. 10 Do not go back through your vineyard to gather the grapes that were missed or to pick up the grapes that have fallen; leave them for poor people and foreigners. I am the Lord 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 outside and closed the door behind him.
Genesis 19:8
Look, I have two daughters who are still virgins. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do whatever you want with them. But don't do anything to these men; they are guests in my house, and I must protect them."
Genesis 19:28
He looked down at Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole valley and saw smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a huge furnace.
Genesis 19:29
But when God destroyed the cities of the valley where Lot was living, he kept Abraham in mind and allowed Lot to escape to safety.
Genesis 21:8
The child grew, and on the day that he was weaned, Abraham gave a great feast.
Exodus 12:15
The Lord said, "For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast—eat only unleavened bread. On the first day you are to get rid of all the yeast in your houses, for if anyone during those seven days eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people.
Exodus 12:39
They baked unleavened bread from the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for they had been driven out of Egypt so suddenly that they did not have time to get their food ready or to prepare leavened dough.
Judges 6:19
So Gideon went into his house and cooked a young goat and used a bushel of flour to make bread without any yeast. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them to the Lord 's angel under the oak tree, and gave them to him.
1 Samuel 28:24
The woman quickly killed a calf which she had been fattening. Then she took some flour, prepared it, and baked some bread without yeast.
2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha went to Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She invited him to a meal, and from then on every time he went to Shunem he would have his meals at her house.

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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