Honour thy father and thy mother

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"Honour thy father and thy mother" (Hebrew: כַּבֵּד אֶת אָבִיךָ וְאֶת אִמֶּךָ לְמַעַן יַאֲרִכוּן יָמֶיךָ, romanized: Kabbēḏ ’eṯ-’āḇîḵā wə’eṯ-’immeḵā ləma‘an ya’ăriḵûn yāmeyḵā) is one of the Ten Commandments in the Hebrew Bible. The commandment is generally regarded in Protestant and Jewish sources as the fifth in both the list in Exodus 20:1–21 and in Deuteronomy (Dvarim) 5:1–23. Catholics and Lutherans count this as the fourth.[1]

These commandments were enforced as law in many jurisdictions, and are still considered enforceable law by some.[2][3][4][5] Exodus 20:1 describes the Ten Commandments as being spoken by Yahweh, inscribed on two stone tablets by the finger of God,[6] broken by Moses, and rewritten on replacement stones by the Lord.

  1. ^ ‘'Ten Commandments,’’ New Bible Dictionary, Second Edition, Tyndale House, 1982 pp. 1174–1175.
  2. ^ Posner, Richard A., How Judges Think, Harvard University Press, 2008, p. 322
  3. ^ Bromiley, Geoffrey W., The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1988, p. 117
  4. ^ Williams, J. Rodman. Renewal theology: systematic theology from a charismatic perspective, 1996 p. 240
  5. ^ Jersild, Paul T., Making moral decisions: a Christian approach to personal and social ethics, 1991, p. 24
  6. ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church. Doubleday Religion. 2003. §2056. ISBN 0-385-50819-0. Archived from the original on 27 February 2010.