Leviticus 19:3

his mother, and his father The command in the Decalogue is to -honour," here to -fear," or act reverently towards parents. The mother is put first, as in Leviticus 21:2. This order probably indicates diversity of origin. But Rashi, on the authority of the Midrashic commentary, Mechilta, on Exodus 20, accounts for this order on the ground that the child by naturefears the father more than the mother.

ye shall keep my sabbaths Repeated in Leviticus 19:30. For the sabbath law cp. Leviticus 26:2; Exodus 31:13. It has been remarked that the two injunctions associated together in this v.are the only two positivecommands in the Decalogue.