¹⁶ Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord must be put to death;^(A) the whole community is to stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the resident foreigner or the native.

⁷ ‘We have a law,’ the Jews replied to him, ‘and according to that law he ought to die,^(A) because he made himself the Son of God.’^(B)