Leviticus 20:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:17 : 17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Matt 15:4 : 4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.
  • Mark 7:10 : 10 For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
  • Judg 9:24 : 24 So that punishment for the violent attack made on the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, and for their blood, might come on Abimelech, their brother, who put them to death, and on the townsmen of Shechem who gave him their help in putting his brothers to death.
  • 2 Sam 1:16 : 16 And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.
  • 1 Kgs 2:32 : 32 And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
  • Lev 20:11-13 : 11 And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them. 12 And if a man has sex relations with his son's wife, the two of them are to be put to death: it is unnatural; their blood will be on them. 13 And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.
  • Lev 20:16 : 16 And if a woman goes near a beast and has sex relations with it, you will put an end to the woman and the beast: their blood will be on them.
  • Lev 20:27 : 27 Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.
  • Josh 2:19 : 19 Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.
  • Matt 27:25 : 25 And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:14-17
    4 verses
    93%

    14 But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

    15 Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

    16 Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

    17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

  • Matt 15:4-5
    2 verses
    87%

    4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

    5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;

  • Mark 7:10
    85%

    10 For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:

  • Deut 27:16
    82%

    16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Prov 20:20
    82%

    20 If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

  • Lev 20:10-14
    5 verses
    80%

    10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

    11 And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.

    12 And if a man has sex relations with his son's wife, the two of them are to be put to death: it is unnatural; their blood will be on them.

    13 And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.

    14 And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.

  • Lev 24:14-17
    4 verses
    79%

    14 Take the curser outside the tent-circle; and let all in whose hearing the words were said put their hands on his head, and let him be stoned by all the people.

    15 And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.

    16 And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.

    17 And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

  • Exod 20:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

    13 Do not put anyone to death without cause.

  • Prov 30:11
    78%

    11 There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

  • Deut 5:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

    17 Do not put anyone to death without cause.

  • Exod 21:12
    76%

    12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

  • Matt 19:19
    76%

    19 Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

  • Exod 31:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14 So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.

    15 Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

  • Deut 13:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

    10 Let him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because it was his purpose to make you false to the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

  • Prov 19:26
    75%

    26 He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.

  • Ezek 18:18
    75%

    18 As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.

  • Deut 24:16
    74%

    16 Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers: every man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.

  • Lev 19:3
    74%

    3 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 27:20
    73%

    20 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Exod 20:7
    73%

    7 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

  • Lev 20:2
    73%

    2 Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land;

  • Exod 35:2
    72%

    2 Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

  • Lev 20:27
    72%

    27 Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.

  • Num 35:17
    72%

    17 Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

  • Eph 6:2
    72%

    2 Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

  • Lev 20:8
    72%

    8 And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.

  • Deut 21:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.

    22 If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

  • Prov 28:24
    72%

    24 He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.

  • Num 35:30
    71%

    30 Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough.

  • Lev 24:21
    71%

    21 He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

  • Matt 5:21
    71%

    21 You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged:

  • Deut 27:23
    71%

    23 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Matt 10:21
    71%

    21 And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

  • Num 35:19
    71%

    19 He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.