20:9 “‘If anyone 2 curses his father and mother 3 he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself. 4
1 sn Compare the regulations in Lev 18:6-23.
2 tn Heb “If a man a man who.”
3 tn Heb “makes light of his father and his mother.” Almost all English versions render this as some variation of “curses his father or mother.”
4 tn Heb “his blood [plural] is in him.” Cf. NAB “he has forfeited his life”; TEV “is responsible for his own death.”