Go and teach all nations
Leviticus 24:10-23
The story of a man who said bad things about the Lord and the punishment
v10 There was a man. His mother was an Israelite and his father was a man from Egypt. The man had a quarrel with an Israelite man.
v11 The Israelite woman’s son said bad things about the Lord. The people took him to Moses. (The name of the mother was Shelomith. She was the daughter of Dibri from the family of Dan.)
v12 They locked the man up. The Lord told them what to do with him.
v13 The Lord said to Moses,
v14 ‘Take the man outside the camp. All the people who heard him speak must put a hand on him. All the people must throw stones at him until he is dead.
v15 Tell Israel’s people, “It is a sin if any man says bad things about the Lord’s name.
v16 He must die. All the people must throw stones at him until he is dead.” You must kill anyone who says bad things about the Lord’s name. They may be a foreigner or an Israelite. You must kill them.
v17 If any man kills another man you must kill him.
v18 A man might kill an animal that belongs to another man. He must give an animal that is alive to the man. You must give a living animal if you take a living animal’s life.
v19 If a man hurts another man, you must also hurt him.
v20 Whatever the man does to another man, the other man can do to him. If he takes an eye, you can take an eye. If he breaks a bone, you can break his bone. If he takes a tooth, you can take his tooth.
v21 A man may kill an animal. That man must give back an animal that is alive. But if he kills a man, you must kill him.
v22 This rule is for all the people. It is the same rule for Israelites and foreigners. I am the Lord your God.’
v23 Moses spoke to Israel’s people. A man had said bad things about the Lord. They took him outside the camp. They threw stones at him until he died. Israel’s people did as the Lord had told Moses.
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Go and teach all nations