Mark 7:10

For example, our ancestor Moses wrote God’s command, ‘Honor your fathers and your mothers’. He also wrote, ‘ The authorities must execute a person who speaks evil about his father or mother.’

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

In Context

9Jesus also said to them, “ You think [IRO] that you are clever in refusing to do what God commanded just so that you can obey your own traditions!

11But you teach people that it is all right that people no longer must help their parents. You teach people that it is all right if people give their things to God instead of giving them to their parents. You allow them to say to their parents, ‘What I was going to give to you to provide for you, I have now promised to give to God. So I cannot any longer help you!’ As a result, you are actually telling people that they no longer have to help their parents!

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Cross References

Exodus 20:12Honor/Respect your fathers and your mothers, in order that you may live a long time in the land that I, Yahweh God, will give you.

Leviticus 20:9‘If anyone curses his father or his mother, he must be executed. He himself will be responsible for his own death [MTY].

Deuteronomy 27:16‘Yahweh will curse anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people must reply, ‘◄Amen/We want that to happen►.’

Proverbs 30:17Those who [SYN] make fun of their fathers or refuse to obey their mothers (OR, despise their aged mothers) should die and have their eyes pecked out by crows, and the rest of their corpses should be fed to the vultures.

Mark 10:19But to answer your question, you know the commandments of Moses, which will cause you to live eternally if you obey them perfectly. He commanded things such as ‘do not murder anyone, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not ◄testify falsely/lie►, do not cheat anyone, and honor your father and mother’.”

Matthew Henry on Mark 7:2-24

The Traditions of the Elders; The Worst Defilement from Within. 1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they… Read the whole commentary →

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