Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
Compare Exo 20:8, Exo 20:12; Exo 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…
Adam Clarke
Ye shall fear every man his mother, etc. - Ye shall have the profoundest reverence and respect for them. See Clarke's note on Gen 48:12, and see Clarke's note on Exo 20:8, and see Clarke's note on Exo…
Moses is ordered to deliver the summary of the laws to all the congregation of the children of Israel (Lev 19:2); not to Aaron and his sons only, but to all the people, for they were all concerned to…
Cambridge Bible
his mother, and his father The command in the Decalogue is to -honour," here to -fear," or act reverently towards parents. The mother is put first, as in Lev 21:2. This order probably indicates…
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