Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.
Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Despise not thy mother when she is old - A very necessary caution, as very old women are generally helpless, useless, and burdensome: yet these circumstances do not at all lessen the child's duty. And this duty is strengthened by the Divine command here given.