Leviticus 20:9
If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Note Or dishonors or reviles; similarly again in this verse
Note Cited in Matthew 15:4 and Mark 7:10
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.
“‘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 himself.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- curseth
- The term {yekallel} signifies not only to curse, but to speak contemptuously, disrespectfully, or to make light of a person: so that all speeches which have a tendency to lessen our parents in the eyes of others, or to render their judgment, piety, etc., suspected or contemptible, is here included; though the act of cursing, or of treating the parent with injurious or opprobrious language, is what is particularly intended. He who conscientiously keeps the fifth commandment, can be in no danger of the judgment here denounced.
- Exodus 21:17; Deuteronomy 27:16; Proverbs 20:20; Proverbs 30:11, 17; Matthew 15:4; Mark 7:10
- his blood
- Leviticus 20:11–13, 16, 27; Joshua 2:19; Judges 9:24; 2 Samuel 1:16; 1 Kings 2:32; Matthew 27:25