Leviticus 24:14 - Forerunner Commentary

Leviticus 24:14

12 Then they ^aput him in custody, ^bthat the mind of the Lord might be shown to them.

13 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

14 “Take outside the camp him who has cursed; then let all who heard him ^alay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

15 “Then you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Whoever curses his God ^ashall bear his sin.

16 And whoever ^ablasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him, the stranger as well as him who is born in the land. When he blasphemes the name of the Lord, he shall be put to death.

17 ^a‘Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.

18 ^aWhoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal.

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That is the law that these Jews were supposedly using. What happened by the jurisprudence of the Jews—the Jewish courts—was that you were only guilty of blasphemy if you cursed God or if you said the ineffable name of God. (That is, the YHWH.) That was not part of what is said there in Leviticus 24. They added that—that you could not say the name of God because it was so holy. But that was not part of the original law. They added that.

Excerpted from The Trial of Jesus

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