Fathers and mothers

1. Gen. 2: 24
     24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
2. Gen. 20: 12
     12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
3. Gen. 27: 14
     14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
4. Gen. 28: 2, 7
     2 Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
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     7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
5. Gen. 37: 10
     10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
6. Gen. 44: 20
     20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
7. Ex. 20: 12
     12 ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
8. Ex. 21: 15, 17
     15 ¶ And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
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     17 ¶ And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
9. Lev. 18: 7, 9
     7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
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     9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
10. Lev. 19: 3
      3 ¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
11. Lev. 20: 9, 17, 19
      9 ¶ For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
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      17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
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      19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
12. Lev. 21: 2, 11
      2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
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      11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
13. Num. 6: 7
      7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
14. Deut. 5: 16
      16 ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
15. Deut. 13: 6
      6 ¶ If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
16. Deut. 21: 13, 18-19
      13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
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      18 ¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
      19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
17. Deut. 22: 15
      15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
18. Deut. 27: 16, 22
      16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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      22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
19. Deut. 33: 9
      9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
20. Josh. 2: 13, 18
      13 And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
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      18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.
21. Josh. 6: 23
      23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
22. Judg. 9: 1
      1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,
23. Judg. 14: 2-6, 9, 16
      2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
      3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
      4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
      5 ¶ Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
      6 And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
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      9 And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
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      16 And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
24. Ruth 2: 11
      11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
25. 1 Sam. 22: 3
      3 ¶ And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.
26. 2 Sam. 19: 37
      37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
27. 1 Kgs. 1: 6
      6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
28. 1 Kgs. 14: 31
      31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
29. 1 Kgs. 19: 20
      20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
30. 1 Kgs. 22: 52
      52 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
31. 2 Kgs. 3: 2, 13
      2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the Lord; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
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      13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the Lord hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
32. 2 Kgs. 4: 19
      19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
33. Esth. 2: 7
      7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
34. Job 17: 14
      14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
35. Job 31: 18
      18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
36. Ps. 27: 10
      10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
37. Ps. 109: 14
      14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
38. Prov. 1: 8
      8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
39. Prov. 4: 3
      3 For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
40. Prov. 6: 20
      20 ¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
41. Prov. 10: 1
      1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
42. Prov. 15: 20
      20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
43. Prov. 19: 26
      26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
44. Prov. 20: 20
      20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
45. Prov. 23: 22, 25
      22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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      25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
46. Prov. 28: 24
      24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
47. Prov. 30: 11, 17
      11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
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      17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
48. Isa. 8: 4
      4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
49. Isa. 49: 23
      23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
50. Jer. 16: 3, 7
      3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
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      7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
     
51. Lam. 5: 3
      3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
52. Ezek. 16: 3, 45
      3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
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      45 Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
53. Ezek. 22: 7
      7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
54. Ezek. 44: 25
      25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
55. Micah 7: 6
      6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
56. Zech. 13: 3
      3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
57. Matt. 10: 35, 37
      35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
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      37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
58. Matt. 12: 50
      50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
59. Matt. 15: 4-6
      4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
      5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
      6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
60. Matt. 19: 5, 19, 29
      5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
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      19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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      29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
61. Mark 5: 40
      40 And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
62. Mark 7: 10-12
      10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
      11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
      12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
63. Mark 10: 7, 19, 29
      7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
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      19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
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      29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,
64. Luke 2: 48
      48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
65. Luke 8: 51
      51 And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.
66. Luke 12: 53
      53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
67. Luke 14: 26
      26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
68. Luke 18: 20
      20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
69. John 6: 42
      42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
70. Eph. 5: 31
      31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
71. Eph. 6: 2
      2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
72. 1 Tim. 1: 9
      9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
73. Heb. 7: 3
      3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
74. 1 Ne. 5: 1, 3, 6-7
      1 And it came to pass that after we had come down into the wilderness unto our father, behold, he was filled with joy, and also my mother, Sariah, was exceedingly glad, for she truly had mourned because of us.
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      3 And after this manner of language had my mother complained against my father.
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      6 And after this manner of language did my father, Lehi, comfort my mother, Sariah, concerning us, while we journeyed in the wilderness up to the land of Jerusalem, to obtain the record of the Jews.
      7 And when we had returned to the tent of my father, behold their joy was full, and my mother was comforted.
75. 1 Ne. 13: 34
      34 And it came to pass that the angel of the Lord spake unto me, saying: Behold, saith the Lamb of God, after I have visited the remnant of the house of Israel—and this remnant of whom I speak is the seed of thy father—wherefore, after I have visited them in judgment, and smitten them by the hand of the Gentiles, and after the Gentiles do stumble exceedingly, because of the most plain and precious parts of the gospel of the Lamb which have been kept back by that abominable church, which is the mother of harlots, saith the Lamb—I will be merciful unto the Gentiles in that day, insomuch that I will bring forth unto them, in mine own power, much of my gospel, which shall be plain and precious, saith the Lamb.
76. 1 Ne. 14: 17
      17 And when the day cometh that the wrath of God is poured out upon the mother of harlots, which is the great and abominable church of all the earth, whose founder is the devil, then, at that day, the work of the Father shall commence, in preparing the way for the fulfilling of his covenants, which he hath made to his people who are of the house of Israel.
77. 1 Ne. 17: 55
      55 And now, they said: We know of a surety that the Lord is with thee, for we know that it is the power of the Lord that has shaken us. And they fell down before me, and were about to worship me, but I would not suffer them, saying: I am thy brother, yea, even thy younger brother; wherefore, worship the Lord thy God, and honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee.
78. 1 Ne. 21: 23
      23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers; they shall bow down to thee with their face towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
79. 2 Ne. 6: 7
      7 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers; they shall bow down to thee with their faces towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
80. 2 Ne. 10: 9
      9 Yea, the kings of the Gentiles shall be nursing fathers unto them, and their queens shall become nursing mothers; wherefore, the promises of the Lord are great unto the Gentiles, for he hath spoken it, and who can dispute?
81. 2 Ne. 18: 4
      4 For behold, the child shall not have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, before the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
82. Mosiah 3: 8
      8 And he shall be called Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the Creator of all things from the beginning; and his mother shall be called Mary.
83. Mosiah 13: 20
      20 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
84. Alma 56: 47
      47 Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.
85. Morm. 6: 19
      19 O ye fair sons and daughters, ye fathers and mothers, ye husbands and wives, ye fair ones, how is it that ye could have fallen!
86. D&C 122: 6
      6 If thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can’t you stay with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to prison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like wolves for the blood of the lamb;
87. D&C 132: 55
      55 But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an hundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of eternal lives in the eternal worlds.
88. D&C 137: 5
      5 I saw Father Adam and Abraham; and my father and my mother; my brother Alvin, that has long since slept;
89. Moses 3: 24
      24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.
90. Abr. 5: 18
      18 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
91. JS-H 1: 4, 7
      4 His family consisting of eleven souls, namely, my father, Joseph Smith; my mother, Lucy Smith (whose name, previous to her marriage, was Mack, daughter of Solomon Mack); my brothers, Alvin (who died November 19th, 1823, in the 26th year of his age), Hyrum, myself, Samuel Harrison, William, Don Carlos; and my sisters, Sophronia, Catherine, and Lucy.
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      7 I was at this time in my fifteenth year. My father’s family was proselyted to the Presbyterian faith, and four of them joined that church, namely, my mother, Lucy; my brothers Hyrum and Samuel Harrison; and my sister Sophronia.
92.