Leviticus 24:10-23

10 There was a man who was the son of a woman of Isra'el and an Egyptian father. He went out among the people of Isra'el, and this son of a woman of Isra'el had a fight in the camp with a man of Isra'el,
11 in the course of which the son of the woman of Isra'el uttered the Name [Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh] in a curse. So they brought him to Moshe. (His mother's name was Shlomit the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
12 They put him under guard until ADONAI would tell them what to do.
13 ADONAI said to Moshe,
14 "Take the man who cursed outside the camp, have everyone who heard him lay their hands on his head, and have the entire community stone him.
15 Then tell the people of Isra'el, 'Whoever curses his God will bear the consequences of his sin;
16 and whoever blasphemes the name of ADONAI must be put to death; the entire community must stone him. The foreigner as well as the citizen is to be put to death if he blasphemes the Name.
17 "'Anyone who strikes another person and kills him must be put to death.
18 Anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution, life for life.
19 If someone injures his neighbor, what he did is to be done to him -
20 break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth -whatever injury he has caused the other person is to be rendered to him in return.
21 He who kills an animal is to make restitution, but he who kills another person is to be put to death.
22 You are to apply the same standard of judgment to the foreigner as to the citizen, because I am ADONAI your God."
23 So Moshe spoke to the people of Isra'el, and they took the man who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him to death. Thus the people of Isra'el did as ADONAI had ordered Moshe. see readings for Parashah 41]

Leviticus 24:10-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 24

This chapter treats of the oil for the lamps, and the ordering of them, Le 24:1-4; of the making of the shewbread cakes, and the setting of them on the table, Le 24:5-9; and an Israelite having blasphemed the name of the Lord, and inquiry being made what should be done to him, he, and so any other person guilty of the same, is ordered to be stoned to death, Le 24:10-16; on occasion of which several laws are repeated concerning killing a man or a beast, or doing injury to any man, Le 24:17-23.

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