Leviticus 20:9
Good News Translation
The LORD gave the following regulations. Any of you that curse your father or mother shall be put to death; you are responsible for your own death.

New Revised Standard Version
All who curse father or mother shall be put to death; having cursed father or mother, their blood is upon them.

Contemporary English Version
If you curse your father or mother, you will be put to death, and it will be your own fault.

New American Bible
Anyone who curses father or mother shall be put to death; and having cursed father or mother, such a one will bear the bloodguilt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.

Exodus 21:17 He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.

Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Proverbs 20:20 He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

Proverbs 30:11,17 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. . . .

Matthew 15:4 Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death.

Mark 7:10 For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.

his blood

Leviticus 20:11-13,16,27 If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them. . . .

Joshua 2:19 Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his blood shall be upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the blood of all that shall be with thee in the house, shall light upon our head, if any man touch them.

Judges 9:24 And to lay the crime of the murder of the seventy sons of Jerobaal, and the shedding of their blood, upon Abimelech, their brother, and upon the rest of the princes of the Sichemites, who aided him.

2 Samuel 1:16 And David said to him: Thy blood be upon thy own head: for thy own mouth hath spoken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord's anointed.

1 Kings 2:32 And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he murdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the sword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army of Juda;

Matthew 27:25 And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children.

Context
Punishments for Disobedience
8Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you. 9He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.
Cross References
Matthew 15:4
Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death.

Mark 7:10
For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.

Exodus 21:17
He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.

Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Proverbs 20:20
He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

Ezekiel 22:7
They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.

Leviticus 20:8
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