Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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Study Note
The commandment 'honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee' stands as the first commandment with an attached promise (Ephesians 6:2) and the only Decalogue commandment concerned with intergenerational human relations. Its position between the first four ('vertical' commandments toward God) and the following five ('horizontal' commandments toward fellow humans) suggests that parents occupy a mediating role — transmitters of Torah and covenant identity between divine and horizontal spheres. The promised land-tenure as reward for honoring parents frames the commandment within Deuteronomic covenant theology: the family is the basic unit of covenant transmission, and honoring its foundational relationships is essential to communal survival. Jesus's controversy with the Pharisees over Corban (Mark 7:9-13) shows the commandment's central importance in Second Temple ethics.
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Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
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