Lexicon :: Strong's H517 - 'ēm

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

The man named his wife Eve (life spring, life giver), because she was the mother of all the living.

Then the girl ran and told her mother’s household what had happened.

May peoples serve you,

And nations bow down to you;

Be lord and master over your brothers,

And may your mother’s sons bow down to you.

May those who curse you be cursed,

And may those who bless you be blessed.”

Now at the time of wheat harvest Reuben [the eldest child] went and found some [fn]mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

“Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land the LORD your God gives you.

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death.

“Whoever [fn]curses his father or his mother or treats them contemptuously must be put to death.

“You shall bring the choice first fruits of your ground into the house of the LORD your God.

“You shall not [fn]boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

“You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD your God.

“You shall not [fn]boil a young goat in his mother’s milk [as some pagans do].”

‘If anyone curses his father or mother, he shall most certainly be put to death; he has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on him [that is, he bears full responsibility for the consequences].

‘If a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the sons of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he bears [responsibility for] his guilt.

‘Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days [on the earth] may be prolonged and so that it may go well with you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or [fn]the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as [precious to you as] your own life (soul), entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (gods whom neither you nor your fathers have known,

“You shall not eat anything that dies on its own. You may give it to the stranger (resident alien, foreigner) who is in your [city] gates, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner [since they are not under God’s law], but you are a people holy (set apart) to the LORD your God. You shall not [fn]boil a young goat or a lamb in its mother’s milk.

“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or of his mother, and when they reprimand and discipline him, he will not listen to them,

“If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the road, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother [bird] is sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.