Leviticus 20:9

Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death; the guilt is his own. Honoring parents is so weighty that contempt for them is a capital matter.

Cross-references · 15

• Exod 21:17Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
• Mark 7:10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
• Deut 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
• Matt 15:4For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
• Prov 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
• Prov 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
• Prov 30:11There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
• 2 Sam 1:16For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”
• Judg 9:24in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
• Matt 27:25All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
• Lev 20:11–13If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
• 1 Kgs 2:32The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
• Lev 20:27A man or a woman who is a medium or spiritist must surely be put to death. They shall be stoned; their blood is upon them.’”
• Josh 2:19If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with you in the house, his blood will be on our heads.
• Lev 20:16If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

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