Exodus 21:15
Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Exodus 21:15
- To smite either father or mother, in a manner which indicated either contempt or malice, or left marks of violence, was deemed a proof of so ungrateful and unnatural a disposition, that no provocation was admitted as an excuse, but the offence was made capital: nay, he who cursed his father or mother, who uttered imprecations, ill wishes, or revilings, against a parent, was included in the same sense; though few crimes were made capital by the law of Moses. The law of God, as delegated to parents is honoured when they are honoured, and despised when they are despised: and to rebel against the lawful exercise of this authority is rebellion against God.--Rev. T. Scott
- Deuteronomy 21:18–21; Deuteronomy 27:24; Proverbs 30:11, 17; 1 Timothy 1:9