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Leviticus 24:16

Leviticus 24:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

blasphemeth: As the word nakav: not only signifies to curse, or blaspheme, but also to express, or distinguish by name (. . ), hence the Jews, at a very early period, understood this law as prohibiting them from uttering the name Jehovah, on any other than sacred occasions.

The Septuagint, which was made at least 250 years before Christ, renders it Ονομαζων δε το ονομα Κυριου:, θανατω θανατουσθω:, "Whosoever nameth the name of the Lord, let him die;" from which we see that the Jews at this time were accustomed to pronounce adonay:, or Lord, instead of Jehovah; for in place of it the Septuagint always put ο Κυριος:.

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