Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

“If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on his own hands.

New American Standard Bible

If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his bloodguiltiness is upon him.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

one
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

or his mother
אם 
'em 
אם 
'em 
Usage: 220
Usage: 220

מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

put to death
מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

References

American

Hastings

Smith

Context Readings

Family And Sexual Offenses

8 Keep My statutes and do them; I am Yahweh who sets you apart. 9 “If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on his own hands. 10 If a man commits adultery with a married woman—if he commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.


Cross References

Exodus 21:17

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

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Matthew 15:4

For God said:

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

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.

Judges 9:24

so that the crime against the 70 sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood would be avenged on their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and on the lords of Shechem, who had helped him kill his brothers.

2 Samuel 1:16

For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood is on your own head because your own mouth testified against you by saying, ‘I killed the Lord’s anointed.’”

Proverbs 20:20

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

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.

Leviticus 20:11-13

If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has shamed his father. Both of them must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands.

Leviticus 20:16

If a woman comes near any animal and mates with it, you are to kill the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their own blood is on them.

Leviticus 20:27

A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their blood is on their own hands.”

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

Joshua 2:19

If anyone goes out the doors of your house, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if anyone with you in the house should be harmed, his blood will be on our heads.

Matthew 27:25

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

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