OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 30:17

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“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

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Verse 17. Labour. Septuagint and so forth “old age.” Hebrew “the obedience or admonition.” Those who curse their parents, were sentenced to death. Leviticus 20:6.

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