Leviticus 20:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

For everyone that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is upon him.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For every{H376} one{H376} that curseth{H7043} his father{H1} or his mother{H517} shall surely{H4191} be put to death:{H4191} he hath cursed{H7043} his father{H1} or his mother;{H517} his blood{H1818} shall be upon him.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For every{H376} one{H376} that curseth{H7043}{(H8762)} his father{H1} or his mother{H517} shall be surely{H4191}{(H8800)} put to death{H4191}{(H8714)}: he hath cursed{H7043}{(H8765)} his father{H1} or his mother{H517}; his blood{H1818} shall be upon him.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Whosoeuer curseth his father or mother, shall dye for it, his bloude on his heed, because he hath cursed his father or mother.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Who so euer curseth his father or his mother, shall dye the death: his bloude be vpon him, because he hath cursed his father or mother.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    If there be any that curseth his father or his mother, he shall die the death: seeing hee hath cursed his father and his mother, his blood shalbe vpon him.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Whosoeuer he be that despiseth his father or his mother, let hym dye: for he hath deminished the estimation of his father & mother, his blood be vpon him.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood `is' on him.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions“‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:17 : 17 And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Matt 15:4 : 4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die.
  • Mark 7:10 : 10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
  • Judg 9:24 : 24 So that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be avenged, and their blood be upon Abimelech their brother who killed them, and upon the men of Shechem who aided him in the killing of his brothers.
  • 2 Sam 1:16 : 16 And David said to him, Your blood be upon your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.
  • 1 Kgs 2:32 : 32 And the Lord will return his blood upon his own head, who struck down two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, my father David not knowing of it: namely, 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 that lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 12 And if a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. 13 If a man also lies with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
  • Lev 20:16 : 16 And if a woman approaches any beast and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
  • Lev 20:27 : 27 A man or woman who has a familiar spirit, or who is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
  • Josh 2:19 : 19 And it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
  • Matt 27:25 : 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us and on our children.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Exod 21:14-17
    4 verses
    93%

    14 But if a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him with guile, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

    15 And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

    16 He who kidnaps a man, and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

    17 And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Matt 15:4-5
    2 verses
    87%

    4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die.

    5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me;

  • Mark 7:10
    85%

    10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death.

  • Deut 27:16
    82%

    16 Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Prov 20:20
    82%

    20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

  • Lev 20:10-14
    5 verses
    80%

    10 And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

    11 And the man that lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

    12 And if a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

    13 If a man also lies with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

    14 And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

  • Lev 24:14-17
    4 verses
    79%

    14 Bring forth him who has cursed outside the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

    15 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

    16 And he who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the stranger as well as the one born in the land, when he blasphemes the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.

    17 And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 20:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

    13 You shall not murder.

  • Prov 30:11
    78%

    11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

  • Deut 5:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

    17 You shall not kill.

  • Exod 21:12
    76%

    12 He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

  • Matt 19:19
    76%

    19 Honor your father and your mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

  • Exod 31:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you: everyone who defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

    15 Six days may work be done; but the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 13:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

    10 And you shall stone him with stones, that he die; because he has sought to push you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

  • Prov 19:26
    75%

    26 He who wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son who causes shame, and brings reproach.

  • Ezek 18:18
    75%

    18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did what is not good among his people, behold, even he shall die in his iniquity.

  • Deut 24:16
    74%

    16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

  • Lev 19:3
    74%

    3 You shall respect every man his mother and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 27:20
    73%

    20 Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife; because he uncovers his father's bed. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Exod 20:7
    73%

    7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

  • Lev 20:2
    73%

    2 Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech, he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

  • Exod 35:2
    72%

    2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

  • Lev 20:27
    72%

    27 A man or woman who has a familiar spirit, or who is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

  • Num 35:17
    72%

    17 And if he strikes him with throwing a stone, by which he may die, and he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Eph 6:2
    72%

    2 Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise;

  • Lev 20:8
    72%

    8 And you shall keep my statutes and do them: I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

  • Deut 21:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he may die: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear.

    22 And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

  • Prov 28:24
    72%

    24 Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no transgression, is a companion of a destroyer.

  • Num 35:30
    71%

    30 Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the testimony of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

  • Lev 24:21
    71%

    21 And he who kills a beast shall restore it: and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Matt 5:21
    71%

    21 You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder,' and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment:

  • Deut 27:23
    71%

    23 Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Matt 10:21
    71%

    21 And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and the children shall rise against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • Num 35:19
    71%

    19 The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meets him, he shall slay him.