Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, so that your days are prolonged on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you.
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Genesis 48:12And Joseph brings them out from between his knees, and bows himself on his face to the earth;
Exodus 21:15And he who strikes his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
Leviticus 19:3You each fear his mother and his father, and you keep My Sabbaths; I [am] your God YHWH.
Deuteronomy 4:26I have caused the heavens and the earth to testify against you this day, that you perish utterly quickly from off the land to where you are passing over the Jordan to possess it; you do not prolong days on it, but are utterly destroyed;
Deuteronomy 5:16Honor your father and your mother, as your God YHWH has commanded you, so that your days are prolonged, and so that it is well with you on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you.
Deuteronomy 25:15You have a complete and just stone, [and] you have a complete and just ephah, so that they prolong your days on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to 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 →