Mark 7:10
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New International Version (©2011)
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and mother,' and, 'Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
For instance, Moses gave you this law from God: 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'Anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.'

English Standard Version (©2001)
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"For Moses said, 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER'; and, 'HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER, IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH';

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother; and Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Because Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

NET Bible (©2006)
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
For Moses said, “Honor your father and your mother”, and “Whoever reviles father and mother shall die the death.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
For example, Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother' and 'Whoever curses father or mother must be put to death.'

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death:

American King James Version
For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death:

American Standard Version
For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

Douay-Rheims Bible
For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy mother; and He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.

Darby Bible Translation
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.

English Revised Version
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

Webster's Bible Translation
For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Whoever curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

Weymouth New Testament
For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother' and again, 'He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.'

World English Bible
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

Young's Literal Translation
for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-13 One great design of Christ's coming was, to set aside the ceremonial law; and to make way for this, he rejects the ceremonies men added to the law of God's making. Those clean hands and that pure heart which Christ bestows on his disciples, and requires of them, are very different from the outward and superstitious forms of Pharisees of every age. Jesus reproves them for rejecting the commandment of God. It is clear that it is the duty of children, if their parents are poor, to relieve them as far as they are able; and if children deserve to die that curse their parents, much more those that starve them. But if a man conformed to the traditions of the Pharisees, they found a device to free him from the claim of this duty.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - Our Lord now gives an example of one of these human traditions. Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; - that is, obey and love them, and succor them, if they need it; for here "honor" means not only reverence and love, but support, as is clear from Ver. 12 - and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death; that is, let him "surely die," without any hope of pardon. Our Lord means this: "That if he who by words only speaks evil of his father or his mother is, by law, guilty of death, how much more is he guilty of death who wrongs them by deed, and deprives them of that support which he owes them by the law of nature; and not only so, but teaches others so from Moses' seat, as you scribes and Pharisees do when you say, 'It is Corban.'"

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For Moses said,.... That is, God by Moses; for the following precept was spoken by God, and written by him on one of the tables of stone, and delivered into the hands of Moses, to be given to the children of Israel:

honour thy father and thy mother, Exodus 20:12, the sanction of which law is,

and whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death, Exodus 21:17. As the former of these commands is to be understood, not only of honouring parents in thought, word, and deed, but also of providing for them, when in want and distress, through poverty and old age; so the latter is to be interpreted, not merely of wishing or imprecating the most dreadful things upon parents, which some may not be guilty of, and yet transgress this command; but likewise of every slight put upon them, and neglect of them, when in necessitous circumstances: and both these laws were broken by the Jews, through their tradition hereafter mentioned; See Gill on Matthew 15:4.

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Tradition and Vain Worship
…9And he said to them, Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition. 10For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death: 11But you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; he shall be free. …

Exodus 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Exodus 21:17 "Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.
Leviticus 20:9 "'Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.
Deuteronomy 5:16 "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.