Leviticus 24:14–23

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

¹⁵“You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘^aIf anyone curses his God, then he will bear his sin.

¹⁶‘Moreover, the one who ^ablasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

“An Eye for an Eye”

¹⁷‘^aIf a man ¹takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death.

¹⁸‘^aThe one who ¹takes the life of an animal shall make it good, life for life.

¹⁹‘If a man ¹injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him:

^20afracture for fracture, ^beye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has ¹injured a man, so it shall be ²inflicted on him.

²¹‘Thus the one who ¹kills an animal shall make it good, but ^athe one who kills a man shall be put to death.

²²‘There shall be ^aone ¹standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the Lord your God.’ ”

²³Then Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. Thus the sons of Israel did, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.