Leviticus 20:9

For the man who curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death; he hath cursed his father, he is guilty of death.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

In Context

8And you shall observe My statutes, and do them: I am the Lord who sanctify you.

10And the man who committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife shall be surely put to death; the adulterer and the adulteress.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:11And the man who lieth with his father’s wife, uncovering his father’s nakedness, shall be surely put to death; both of them are guilty of death.

Leviticus 20:27A man or a woman with whom are impostures or divinations shall be verily put to death; with stones they shall be stoned, they are guilty of death.

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 →

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