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Literal Standard Version

Leviticus 19:3

You each fear his mother and his father, and you keep My Sabbaths; I [am] your God YHWH.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Mother;   Reverence;   Sabbath;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Filial Honour;   Honour;   Mothers;   Respect;   Young People;   The Topic Concordance - Fear;   Parents;   Sabbath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;   Sabbath, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fear;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Proverbs, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gaal;   Mother;   Sabbath;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Authority;   Divination and Magic;   Ethics;   Fear;   Leviticus;   Mother;   Pentateuch;   Reverence;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Child, Children;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lord's Day;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Sabbath;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mother;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Father;   Fear;   Leviticus;   Mother;   Relationships, Family;   Sabbath;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Blessing of Children;   Commandments, the 613;   Ethics;   Family and Family Life;   Father;   Fear of Man;   Sidra;   Woman, Rights of;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and you shall keep my Shabbatot: I am the LORD your God.
King James Version
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Lexham English Bible
Each of you must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.
New Century Version
"‘You must respect your mother and father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
New English Translation
Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
Amplified Bible
'Each of you shall respect his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.
New American Standard Bible
'Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yee shall feare euery man his mother and his father, and shall keepe my Sabbaths: for I am the Lord your God.
Legacy Standard Bible
Every one of you shall fear his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.
Contemporary English Version
Respect your father and your mother, honor the Sabbath, and don't make idols or images. I am the Lord your God.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘Every one of you is to revere his father and mother, and you are to keep my Shabbats; I am Adonai your God.
Darby Translation
Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Each of you must honor your mother and father and keep my special days of rest. I am the Lord your God!
English Standard Version
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
George Lamsa Translation
You must revere every man his father and his mother, and keep my commandments; for I am the LORD your God.
Good News Translation
Each of you must respect your mother and your father, and must keep the Sabbath, as I have commanded. I am the Lord your God.
Christian Standard Bible®
“Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep my Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.
Literal Translation
Each man of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths; I am Jehovah your God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euery one feare his father and his mother. Kepe my holy dayes: for I am the LORDE youre God.
American Standard Version
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.
Bible in Basic English
Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall feare euery man his mother and his father, & kepe my Sabbathes: I am the Lorde your God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and ye shall keep My sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
King James Version (1611)
Yee shall feare euery man his mother, and his father, and keepe my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let every one of you reverence his father and his mother; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
English Revised Version
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Berean Standard Bible
Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must observe My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ech man drede his fadir and his modir. Kepe ye my sabatis; Y am youre Lord God.
Young's Literal Translation
`Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I [am] Jehovah your God.
Update Bible Version
You shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am Yahweh your God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I [am] the LORD your God.
World English Bible
You shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am Yahweh your God.
New King James Version
"Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
New Living Translation
"Each of you must show great respect for your mother and father, and you must always observe my Sabbath days of rest. I am the Lord your God.
New Life Bible
Every one of you must have respect for his mother and his father. And keep My Days of Rest. I am the Lord your God.
New Revised Standard
You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye shall, every one, revere, his father and his mother, And my sabbaths, shall ye observe, - I - Yahweh, am your God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
Revised Standard Version
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
THE MESSAGE
"Every one of you must respect his mother and father. "Keep my Sabbaths. I am God , your God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.

Contextual Overview

1And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: You are holy, because I, your God YHWH, [am] holy. 3You each fear his mother and his father, and you keep My Sabbaths; I [am] your God YHWH.4You do not turn to the idols, and you do not make a molten god for yourselves; I [am] your God YHWH. 5And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace-offerings to YHWH, you sacrifice it at your pleasure; 6it is eaten in the day of your sacrificing [it], and on the next day, and that which is left to the third day is burned with fire, 7and if it is really eaten on the third day, it [is] an abomination, it is not pleasing, 8and he who is eating it bears his iniquity, for he has defiled the holy thing of YHWH, and that person has been cut off from his people. 9And in your reaping the harvest of your land you do not completely reap the corner of your field, and you do not gather the gleaning of your harvest, 10and you do not glean your vineyard, even the omitted part of your vineyard you do not gather, you leave them for the poor and for the sojourner; I [am] your God YHWH.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fear: Exodus 20:12, Exodus 21:15, Exodus 21:17, Deuteronomy 21:18-21, Deuteronomy 27:16, Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 6:20, Proverbs 6:21, Proverbs 23:22, Proverbs 30:11, Proverbs 30:17, Ezekiel 22:7, Malachi 1:6, Matthew 15:4-6, Ephesians 6:1-3, Hebrews 12:9

keep: Leviticus 26:2, Exodus 16:29, Exodus 20:8, Exodus 31:13-17, Isaiah 56:4-6, Isaiah 58:13, Ezekiel 20:12, Ezekiel 22:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 28:7 - General Genesis 31:35 - my lord Genesis 48:12 - he bowed himself Leviticus 18:2 - General Leviticus 19:30 - keep Leviticus 23:3 - General Leviticus 23:38 - the sabbaths Deuteronomy 5:16 - Honour 1 Kings 2:19 - rose up Proverbs 15:20 - despiseth Jeremiah 17:22 - neither do Matthew 19:19 - Honour Romans 13:7 - fear to Colossians 3:20 - obey

Cross-References

Genesis 19:6
And Lot goes out to them, to the opening, and the door has shut behind him,
Genesis 19:8
now behold, I have two daughters who have not known anyone; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them as [is] good in your eyes; only do nothing to these men, for therefore they have come in within the shadow of my roof."
Genesis 19:28
and he looks on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and sees, and behold, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.
Genesis 19:29
And it comes to pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembers Abraham, and sends Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.
Genesis 21:8
And the boy grows, and is weaned, and Abraham makes a great banquet in the day of Isaac's being weaned;
Exodus 12:15
Seven days you eat unleavened things; only—in the first day you cause leaven to cease out of your houses; for anyone eating anything fermented from the first day until the seventh day, indeed, that person has been cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:39
And they bake unleavened cakes with the dough which they have brought out from Egypt, for it has not fermented; for they have been cast out of Egypt, and have not been able to delay, and also they have not made provision for themselves.
Judges 6:19
And Gideon has gone in, and prepares a kid of the goats, and an ephah of flour [worth] of unleavened things; he has put the flesh in a basket, and he has put the broth in a pot, and he brings [them] out to Him, to the place of the oak, and brings [them] near.
1 Samuel 28:24
And the woman has a calf of the stall in the house, and she hurries and slaughters it, and takes flour, and kneads, and bakes it [into] unleavened things,
2 Kings 4:8
And the day comes that Elisha passes over to Shunem, and there [is] a great woman, and she lays hold on him to eat bread, and it comes to pass, at the time of his passing over, he turns aside there to eat bread,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father,.... This has respect to the fifth command, which is the first with promise, and is here referred to first, because a man has his beginning in the world from his parents, and by them he is trained up in the observance of all the other laws of God, equally to be respected; and the fear of them is not servile, but filial, joined with love and affection to them, and includes an inward esteem and reverence of them, an outward respect unto them, a readiness to obey their commands, and giving due and equal honour unto them; :-; Pythagoras, Phocylides, and other Heathens, next to honouring God, exhort to the honour and reverence of parents:

and keep my sabbaths; this is expressed in the plural number, because there were various sabbaths. The seventh day sabbath, and the seventh year sabbath, and the jubilee, which was once in seven times seven years; the seventh day sabbath is chiefly meant: this follows upon the other, because it lay upon parents to teach their children the observance of the sabbath, and to train them up in it; and indeed the fear of them greatly depends on it, for children that are sabbath breakers have seldom much respect to their parents; and besides this suggests, that though children are to honour, reverence, and obey their parents, yet not in anything that is contrary to the laws of God; and, particularly should they suggest to them that sabbaths were not to be observed, they should not hearken to them:

I [am] the Lord your God; that gave them their being, parents being but instruments, and who had a right to enjoin them what laws he pleased; and among the rest had ordered them to observe the sabbath, and which in gratitude they were obliged unto, as well as in point of duty.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 20:8, Exodus 20:12; Exodus 31:13-14. The two laws repeated here are the only laws in the Decalogue which assume a positive shape, all the others being introduced by the formula, “Thou shalt not.” These express two great central points, the first belonging to natural law and the second to positive law, in the maintenance of the well-being of the social body of which Yahweh was the acknowledged king.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 19:3. Ye shall fear every man his mother, c. — Ye shall have the profoundest reverence and respect for them. Genesis 48:12; Genesis 48:12 "Exodus 20:8"; and "Exodus 20:12".


 
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