Leviticus 20:9

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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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:17 : 17 “Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 ‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
  • Matt 15:4 : 4 For God said,‘Honor your father and mother’ and‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’
  • Mark 7:10 : 10 For Moses said,‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and,‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother– the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.
  • Judg 9:24 : 24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them.
  • 2 Sam 1:16 : 16 David said to him,“Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying‘I have put the LORD’s anointed to death.’”
  • 1 Kgs 2:32 : 32 May the LORD punish him for the blood he shed; behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he– Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
  • Lev 20:11-13 : 11 If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves. 12 If a man goes to bed with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; their blood guilt is on themselves. 13 If a man goes to bed with a male as one goes to bed with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
  • Lev 20:16 : 16 If a woman approaches any animal to copulate with it, you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
  • Lev 20:27 : 27 Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums“‘A man or woman who has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; their blood guilt is on themselves.’”
  • Josh 2:19 : 19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death– we are innocent in that case! But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible.
  • Matt 27:25 : 25 In reply all the people 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%

    14But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

    15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

    16“Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.

    17“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

  • Matt 15:4-5
    2 verses
    87%

    4For God said,‘Honor your father and mother’ and‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

    5But you say,‘If someone tells his father or mother,“Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”

  • Mark 7:10
    85%

    10For Moses said,‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and,‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

  • Deut 27:16
    82%

    16‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Prov 20:20
    82%

    20The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.

  • Lev 20:10-14
    5 verses
    80%

    10If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

    11If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

    12If a man goes to bed with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; their blood guilt is on themselves.

    13If a man goes to bed with a male as one goes to bed with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

    14If a man has marital relations with both a woman and her mother, it is lewdness. Both he and they must be burned to death, so there is no lewdness in your midst.

  • Lev 24:14-17
    4 verses
    79%

    14“Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and all who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation is to stone him to death.

    15Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites,‘If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,

    16and one who misuses the name of the LORD must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a resident foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.

    17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

  • Exod 20:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.

    13“You shall not murder.

  • Prov 30:11
    78%

    11There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

  • Deut 5:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.

    17You must not murder.

  • Exod 21:12
    76%

    12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

  • Matt 19:19
    76%

    19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”

  • Exod 31:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people.

    15Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

  • Deut 13:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

    10You must stone him to death because he tried to entice you away from the LORD your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

  • Prov 19:26
    75%

    26The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

  • Ezek 18:18
    75%

    18As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

  • Deut 24:16
    74%

    16Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

  • Lev 19:3
    74%

    3Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 27:20
    73%

    20‘Cursed is the one who goes to bed with his father’s former wife, for he dishonors his father.’ Then all the people will 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 guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.

  • Lev 20:2
    73%

    2“You are to say to the Israelites,‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones.

  • Exod 35:2
    72%

    2In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.

  • Lev 20:27
    72%

    27Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums“‘A man or woman who has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

  • Num 35:17
    72%

    17If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

  • Eph 6:2
    72%

    2“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

  • Lev 20:8
    72%

    8You must be sure to obey my statutes. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

  • Deut 21:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.

    22Disposition of a Criminal’s Remains If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

  • Prov 28:24
    72%

    24The one who robs his father and mother and says,“There is no transgression,” is a companion to the one who destroys.

  • Num 35:30
    71%

    30“Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses, but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

  • Lev 24:21
    71%

    21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

  • Matt 5:21
    71%

    21Anger and Murder“You have heard that it was said to an older generation,‘Do not murder,’ and‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

  • Deut 27:23
    71%

    23‘Cursed is the one who goes to bed with his mother-in-law.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Matt 10:21
    71%

    21“Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

  • Num 35:19
    71%

    19The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.