12"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.


In Context

9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.

11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

12 "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

13 "You shall not murder.

14 "You shall not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:12Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:12Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12|Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:12Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long on the land which the LORD your God gives you.