Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

New American Standard Bible

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

King James Version

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

International Standard Version

"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

A Conservative Version

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

American Standard Version

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Amplified

“Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land the Lord your God gives you.

Bible in Basic English

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Darby Translation

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Julia Smith Translation

Honor thy father and thy mother, so that thy days shall be prolon upon the land which Jehovah thy gave to thee.

King James 2000

Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving you.

Modern King James verseion

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

NET Bible

"Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

New Heart English Bible

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

The Emphasized Bible

Honour thy father, and thy mother, - that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil, which Yahweh thy God is about to give unto thee.

Webster

Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

World English Bible

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Youngs Literal Translation

'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּבד כּבד 
Kabad 
Usage: 114

and thy mother
אם 
'em 
Usage: 220

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

may be long
ארך 
'arak 
Usage: 34

upon the land
אדמה 
'adamah 
Usage: 225

which the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

Images Exodus 20:12

Context Readings

The Ten Commandments

11 For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.
12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
13 Do not murder.


Cross References

Leviticus 19:3

“Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep My Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.

Luke 18:20

You know the commandments:

Do not commit adultery;
do not murder;
do not steal;
do not bear false witness;
honor your father and mother.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said:

Honor your father and your mother; and
Whoever speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.

Exodus 21:15

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

Exodus 21:17

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

Leviticus 19:32

“You are to rise in the presence of the elderly and honor the old. Fear your God; I am Yahweh.

Matthew 19:19

honor your father and your mother;
and love your neighbor as yourself.

Mark 10:19

You know the commandments:

Do not murder;
do not commit adultery;
do not steal;
do not bear false witness;
do not defraud;
honor your father and mother.

Ephesians 6:1-3

Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish from the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:40

Keep His statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and so that you may prosper in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 25:15

You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 32:47

For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

1 Kings 2:19

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him about Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, sat down on his throne, and had a throne placed for the king’s mother. So she sat down at his right hand.

2 Kings 2:12

As Elisha watched, he kept crying out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” Then he never saw Elijah again. He took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.

Proverbs 1:8-9

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,

Proverbs 3:16

Long life is in her right hand;
in her left, riches and honor.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises his father’s discipline,
but a person who accepts correction is sensible.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or mother
his lamp will go out in deep darkness.

Proverbs 23:22-25

Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 28:24

The one who robs his father or mother
and says, “That’s no sin,”
is a companion to a man who destroys.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses its father
and does not bless its mother.

Proverbs 30:17

As for the eye that ridicules a father
and despises obedience to a mother,
may ravens of the valley pluck it out
and young vultures eat it.

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me? says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”

Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”

Matthew 15:4-6

For God said:

Honor your father and your mother; and,
The one who speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.

Ephesians 5:21

submitting to one another
in the fear of Christ.

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