Exodus 21:15

“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

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In The King James Version

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

In Context

14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbour to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

16“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:24‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbour.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Proverbs 30:17“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:13-22

12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to… Read the whole commentary →

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