3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. …
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. 1-10)Moses is ordered to deliver the summary of the laws to all the congregation of the children of Israel (Lev. 19:2); not to Aaron and his sons only, but to all the people, for they were all concerned to know their duty. Even in the darker ages of the law, that religion could not be of God which boasted of ignorance as its mother. Moses must make known God’s statutes to all the congregation, and proc…
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