²³ Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

¹⁴ "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

¹⁵ You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

¹⁶ He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

³⁵ Yahweh said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.

³⁶ All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

² For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;

³ how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation-- which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

²⁸ A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

²⁹ How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?