Mark - 7:10

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10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

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Explanation and meaning of Mark 7:10.

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For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy mother; and He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Whoever curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother, let him die the death;
For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death:
For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother' and again, 'He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.'
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:
For Moses said: 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever will have cursed father or mother, let him die a death.'
For while Moses said 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'Let anyone who abuses their father or mother suffer death,'

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

For Moses said, etc. - See all these verses, from this to the 23d, explained Matthew 15:3-20 (note).

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him (g) die the death:
(g) Without hope of pardon, he will be put to death.

For Moses said,.... That is, God by Moses; for the following precept was spoken by God, and written by him on one of the tables of stone, and delivered into the hands of Moses, to be given to the children of Israel:
honour thy father and thy mother, Exodus 20:12, the sanction of which law is,
and whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death, Exodus 21:17. As the former of these commands is to be understood, not only of honouring parents in thought, word, and deed, but also of providing for them, when in want and distress, through poverty and old age; so the latter is to be interpreted, not merely of wishing or imprecating the most dreadful things upon parents, which some may not be guilty of, and yet transgress this command; but likewise of every slight put upon them, and neglect of them, when in necessitous circumstances: and both these laws were broken by the Jews, through their tradition hereafter mentioned; See Gill on Matthew 15:4.

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