Leviticus 24:15
New International Version
Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible;

New Living Translation
Say to the people of Israel: Those who curse their God will be punished for their sin.

English Standard Version
And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

Berean Standard Bible
And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.

King James Bible
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

New King James Version
“Then you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

New American Standard Bible
You shall also speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone curses his God, then he will bear the responsibility for his sin.

NASB 1995
“You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone curses his God, then he will bear his sin.

NASB 1977
“And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone curses his God, then he shall bear his sin.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone curses his God, then he will bear his sin.

Amplified Bible
You shall speak to the Israelites, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God will bear his sin [through his own death].

Christian Standard Bible
And tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And speak with the children of Israel and say to them: 'When a man will revile his God, he shall bear his sin.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And speak to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whosoever shall curse God shall bear his sin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel: the man that curseth his God, shall bear his sin:

English Revised Version
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Also tell the Israelites: Those who treat their God with contempt will be punished for their sin.

Good News Translation
Then tell the people of Israel that anyone who curses God must suffer the consequences

International Standard Version
Moreover, tell the Israelis that anyone who curses his God will bear the consequences of his own sin,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

Literal Standard Version
And you speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When any man reviles his God—then he has borne his sin;

Majority Standard Bible
And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.

New American Bible
Tell the Israelites: Anyone who blasphemes God shall bear the penalty;

NET Bible
Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites, 'If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,

New Revised Standard Version
And speak to the people of Israel, saying: Anyone who curses God shall bear the sin.

New Heart English Bible
You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

World English Bible
You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

Young's Literal Translation
'And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, When any man revileth his God -- then he hath borne his sin;

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Context
Shelomith's Son Blasphemes
14“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him. 15 And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin. 16Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.…

Cross References
Exodus 22:28
You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

1 Kings 21:10
But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, 'You have cursed both God and the king!' Then take him out and stone him to death."


Treasury of Scripture

And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

bear his sin

Leviticus 5:1
And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 20:16,17
And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them…

Numbers 9:13
But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

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Leviticus 24
1. The oil for the lamps
5. The showbread
10. Shelomith's son blasphemes
13. The law of blasphemy
17. Of murder
18. Of damage
23. The blasphemer is stoned














(15) Whosoever curseth his God.--As Moses had to appeal to God for direction, the Lord has not only declared what should be done with this particular offender, but lays down a general law for the punishment of blasphemers. As the criminal who is the immediate occasion of this enactment is an Egyptian, directions are given, in the first place, about the treatment of Gentiles who temporarily sojourn among the Hebrews, and who have not as yet renounced their faith in their own God. If such a Gentile curses his own God in whom he still professes to believe, he shall bear his sin; he must suffer the punishment for his sin from the hands of his co-religionists, whose feelings he has outraged. The Israelites are not to interfere to save him from the consequence of his guilt; for a heathen who reviles the god in whom he believes is not to be trusted in other respects, and sets a bad example to others, who might be led to imitate his conduct.

Verses 15, 16. - In accordance with the judicial decision on the man is framed the general law against blasphemy and its penalty. It runs as follows: Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him. It has been questioned whether two offenses or one are here contemplated, whether cursing his God is one offense, bearing his sin being its punishment, and blaspheming the Name of the Lord another and greater offense, for which the punishment is stoning; or whether the latter offense and punishment are a more specific statement of the offense and punishment which had only generally been described before. Those who take the first view point out that the present offender was an Egyptian, and urge that had he cursed his God, that is, the Egyptian god or gods, he would only have had to bear his sin; but that as he had blasphemed the Name of Israel's God, Jehovah, he was to be stoned. The second explanation, however, is the truer one. The Scriptures recognize but one God, and he is the Lord Jehovah. Whoever curses him shall bear his sin, that is, shall be guilty in such a way that his sin must be purged either by punishment or by sacrifice, and it is then further declared that this particular sin can be purged only by the death of the offender at the hand of the congregation.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And you are to tell
תְּדַבֵּ֣ר (tə·ḏab·bêr)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

the Israelites,
בְּנֵ֥י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

‘If
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

anyone
אִ֥ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

curses
יְקַלֵּ֥ל (yə·qal·lêl)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7043: To be slight, swift or trifling

his God,
אֱלֹהָ֖יו (’ĕ·lō·hāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

he shall bear the consequences
וְנָשָׂ֥א (wə·nā·śā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

of his sin.
חֶטְאֽוֹ׃ (ḥeṭ·’ōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2399: A crime, its penalty


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