¹¹ And the Israelite woman’s son ^(A)blasphemed the name of the Lord and ^(B)cursed; and so they ^(C)brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

²¹ They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and ^(A)curse ^[a]their king and their God, and look upward.

^5 (A)But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his ^(B)bone and his flesh, and he will surely ^[a]curse You to Your face!”

¹⁵ “Then you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Whoever curses his God ^(A)shall ^[a]bear his sin. ¹⁶ And whoever ^(B)blasphemes 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.

²⁶ So they judged the people at all times; the ^(A)hard^[a] cases they brought to Moses, but they judged every small case themselves.

²² And let them judge the people at all times. ^(A)Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for you, for ^(B)they will bear the burden with you.

¹⁵ Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is ^(A)My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.’

²¹ And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.

¹¹ They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.