Exodus 21:15
Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
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- Deuteronomy 21:18–20 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined, his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown, and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
- Deuteronomy 27:24 ‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Proverbs 30:11 There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.