Exodus 20:12

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“Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.”

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BSBPD

“Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 20:12 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 48:12Then Joseph removed his sons from his father’s knees and bowed facedown.
  2. Genesis 50:12So Jacob’s sons did as he had charged them.
  3. Exodus 21:15Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
  4. Exodus 21:17Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
  5. Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
  6. Leviticus 19:32You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
  7. Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
  8. Deuteronomy 4:40Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
  9. Deuteronomy 5:16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  10. Deuteronomy 21:18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
  11. Deuteronomy 25:15You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  12. Deuteronomy 32:47For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
  13. Ruth 3:6So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.
  14. 1 Samuel 22:3From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”
  15. 1 Kings 2:19So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne brought for his mother, who sat down at his right hand.
  16. 2 Kings 2:12As Elisha watched, he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And he saw Elijah no more. So taking hold of his own clothes, he tore them in two.
  17. Proverbs 1:8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
  18. Proverbs 3:16Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
  19. Proverbs 15:5A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
  20. Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
  21. Proverbs 23:22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
  22. Proverbs 28:24He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.
  23. Proverbs 30:11There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
  24. Proverbs 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

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