Leviticus 20:9 meaning and explanation
If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Leviticus 20:9, Berean Standard Bible
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These words come from God through Moses to the Israelites at Sinai, as part of the laws that would shape life in the land they were about to enter. The Hebrew verb translated "curses" carries the sense of treating a parent with contempt, not merely an outburst of anger.
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