Leviticus 20:9
He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die: he hath cursed his father, and mother, let his blood be upon him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
8Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.
Cross References
Leviticus 20:11If 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.
Leviticus 20:27A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die: they shall stone them: their blood be upon them.
Joshua 2:19If when we come into the land, this scarlet cord be a sign, and thou tie it in the window, by which thou hast let us down: and gather together thy father and mother, and brethren and all thy kindred into thy house.
2 Samuel 1:16And 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.
Proverbs 20:20He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.
Proverbs 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 20:2-10
Moral Laws. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.… Read the whole commentary →