“And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.”
Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death. The homicide law that follows the blasphemy law — both involve the ultimate penalty applied to violations of the ultimate relationships (with God and with human life made in God's image). The death for death principle of homicide communicates the equal value of every human life: no person's life is worth more than another's, and every unjustified taking of a life is answered by the legal taking of the killer's life.
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