<P> It also requires honour to one's stepparents or an older sibling who is raising one, and one's teachers, though one has a greater obligation to honor a parent than a grandparent . </P> <P> The commandment is repeated eight times throughout the bible . </P> <P> Keeping this commandment was associated by the Israelites with the ability of the nation of Israel to remain in the land to which God was leading them . According to the Torah, striking or cursing one's father or mother was punishable by immediate death . In Deuteronomy, a procedure is described for parents to bring a persistently disobedient son to the city elders for death by stoning . </P> <P> Honouring one's parents is also described in the Torah as an analogue to honouring God . According to the prophet Jeremiah, God refers to himself as Father to Israel, and according to the prophet Isaiah, God refers to Israel as his sons and daughters . According to the prophet Malachi, God calls for similar honour . </P>

Hebrew meaning of honor your mother and father