Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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Genesis 48:12Joseph took his sons from between Israel's knees, and bowed low with his face to the ground.
Exodus 21:15Anyone who hits their father or mother must be executed.
Leviticus 19:3Show respect for your mother and father, and keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 4:26If you do this, I call on heaven and earth to be witnesses against you today that you will be completely wiped out from the country that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy. You will not live long there—you will be totally destroyed.
Deuteronomy 5:16Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you to do, so that you may live a long time and do well in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 25:15Make sure you always use accurate and true weights and measures. In that way you will have long lives in the country the Lord your God is giving you.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 20:2-12
The Ten Commandments. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the… Read the whole commentary →