Leviticus 24:16
Good News Translation
and be put to death. Any Israelite or any foreigner living in Israel who curses the LORD shall be stoned to death by the whole community.

New Revised Standard Version
One who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death; the whole congregation shall stone the blasphemer. Aliens as well as citizens, when they blaspheme the Name, shall be put to death.

New American Bible
whoever utters the name of the LORD in a curse shall be put to death. The whole community shall stone that person; alien and native-born alike must be put to death for uttering the LORD’s name in a curse.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die. All the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die. All the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.

Numbers 1:17 Whom Moses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common people:

1 Chronicles 12:31 And of the half tribe of Manasses, eighteen thousand, every one by their names, came to make David king.

Isaiah 62:2 And the Gentiles shall see thy just one, and all kings thy glorious one: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.

250 years before Christ, renders it [], `Whosoever nameth the name of the Lord, let him die;' from which we see that the Jews at this time were accustomed to pronounce {adonay}, or Lord, instead of Jehovah; for in place of it the Septuagint always put [].

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.

1 Kings 21:10-13 And suborn two men, sons of Belial, against him. and let them bear false witness; that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die. . . .

Psalm 74:10,18 How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever? . . .

Psalm 139:20 Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.

Matthew 12:31 Therefore I say to you: Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven.

Mark 3:28,29 Amen I say to you that all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and the blasphemies wherewith they shall blaspheme: . . .

John 8:58,59 Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I AM. . . .

John 10:33-36 The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou. being a, man, makest thyself God. . . .

Acts 26:11 And oftentimes punishing them, in every synagogue, I compelled them to blaspheme: and being yet more mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

1 Timothy 1:13 Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

James 2:7 Do not they blaspheme the good name that is invoked upon you?

Context
Shelomith's Son Blasphemes
15And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel: The man that curseth his God, shall bear his sin: 16And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die. All the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.
Cross References
Matthew 12:31
Therefore I say to you: Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven.

Matthew 26:66
What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.

Mark 3:28
Amen I say to you that all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and the blasphemies wherewith they shall blaspheme:

Mark 14:64
You have heard the blasphemy. What think you? Who all condemned him to be guilty of death.

John 10:33
The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou. being a, man, makest thyself God.

John 19:7
The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

Acts 7:58
And casting him forth without the city. they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul.

Exodus 22:28
Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods, and the prince of thy people thou shalt not curse.

2 Samuel 6:2
And David arose and went, with all the people that were with him of the men of Juda to fetch the ark of God, upon which the name of the Lord of Hosts is invoked, who sitteth over it upon the cherubims.

1 Kings 21:10
And suborn two men, sons of Belial, against him. and let them bear false witness; that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die.

Psalm 74:10
How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?

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