Exodus 21:17
New International Version
“Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.

New Living Translation
“Anyone who dishonors father or mother must be put to death.

English Standard Version
“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Berean Standard Bible
Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.

King James Bible
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

New King James Version
“And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

New American Standard Bible
“And one who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.

NASB 1995
“He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

NASB 1977
“And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Legacy Standard Bible
“And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Amplified Bible
“Whoever curses his father or his mother or treats them contemptuously must be put to death.

Christian Standard Bible
“Whoever curses his father or his mother must be put to death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Whoever curses his father or his mother must be put to death.”

American Standard Version
And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He who will revile his father or his mother surely shall be killed.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.

Contemporary English Version
Death is the punishment for cursing your father or mother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that curseth his father, or mother, shall die the death.

English Revised Version
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Whoever curses his father or mother must be put to death.

Good News Translation
"Whoever curses his father or his mother is to be put to death.

International Standard Version
"Whoever curses his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

Literal Standard Version
And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

Majority Standard Bible
Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.

New American Bible
Whoever curses father or mother shall be put to death.

NET Bible
"Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever curses father or mother shall be put to death.

New Heart English Bible
"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

World English Bible
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Young's Literal Translation
'And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

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Context
Personal Injury Laws
16Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession. 17Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death. 18If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,…

Cross References
Matthew 15:4
For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'

Mark 7:10
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'

Exodus 21:18
If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,

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.

Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.' And let all the people say, 'Amen!'

Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.

Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.


Treasury of Scripture

And he that curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

curseth or veliteth

Leviticus 20:9
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.

Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Proverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

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Exodus 21
1. Laws for men servants
5. For the servant whose ear is bored
7. For women servants
12. For manslaughter
16. For kidnappers
17. For cursers of parents
18. For smiters
22. For a hurt by chance
28. For an ox that gores
33. For him who is an occasion of harm














Verse 17. - He that curseth his father, etc. Blasphemy against God, and imprecations upon parents, were the only two sins of the tongue which the law expressly required to be punished with death (Leviticus 24:16). In later times analogy was held to require that "cursing the ruler of the people" (Exodus 22:28) should be visited with the same penalty (2 Samuel 19:22; 1 Kings 2:8, 9, 46). The severity of the sentence indicates that in God' s sight such sins are of the deepest dye.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Whoever curses
וּמְקַלֵּ֥ל (ū·mə·qal·lêl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7043: To be slight, swift or trifling

his father
אָבִ֛יו (’ā·ḇîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

or mother
וְאִמּ֖וֹ (wə·’im·mōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 517: A mother, )

must surely
מ֥וֹת (mō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

be put to death.
יוּמָֽת׃ (yū·māṯ)
Verb - Hofal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill


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