16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: …
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-26)When the law was written, to be seen and read by all men , the sanctions of it were to be published, which, to complete the solemnity of their covenanting with God, they were deliberately to declare their approbation of. This they were before directed to do ( Deut. 11:29 , 30 ), and therefore the appointment here begins somewhat abruptly, Deut. 27:12. There were, it seems, in Canaan, that part of…
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