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EXODUS | 21:17 insults — EXOD564 … if one actually curses one's parents, t...

EXOD564 … if one actually curses one's parents, the Torah decrees nothing less than the death penalty [this verse].Even if one did not go quite that far,… it is wrong to insult one's parents. Thus verbal abuse of parents, aside from sharing in the more general prohibition of oppressive speech [ona'at devarim], involves the added violations of the positive commandment to respect our parents and the prohibition of cursing them.

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Verse21:17
Keyword(s)insults
Source Page(s)179
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