Exodus 22:28
New International Version
“Do not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

New Living Translation
“You must not dishonor God or curse any of your rulers.

English Standard Version
“You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Berean Standard Bible
You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

King James Bible
Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

New King James Version
“You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

New American Standard Bible
“You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

NASB 1995
“You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

NASB 1977
“You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Legacy Standard Bible
“You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Amplified Bible
“You shall not curse God, nor curse the ruler of your people [since he administers God’s law].

Christian Standard Bible
“You must not blaspheme God or curse a leader among your people.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You must not blaspheme God or curse a leader among your people.”

American Standard Version
Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse a ruler of thy people.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not vilify the Judge and do not curse the Ruler of your people.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor speak ill of the ruler of thy people.

Contemporary English Version
Don't speak evil of me or of the ruler of your people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods, and the prince of thy people thou shalt not curse.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse a ruler of thy people.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Never show disrespect for God or curse a leader of your people.

Good News Translation
"Do not speak evil of God, and do not curse a leader of your people.

International Standard Version
"You are not to blaspheme God or curse a ruler of your people.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse a ruler of thy people.

Literal Standard Version
You do not revile God, and you do not curse a prince among your people.

Majority Standard Bible
You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

New American Bible
You shall not despise God, nor curse a leader of your people.

NET Bible
"You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not revile God, or curse a leader of your people.

New Heart English Bible
"You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

World English Bible
“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Young's Literal Translation
'God thou dost not revile, and a prince among thy people thou dost not curse.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Laws of Social Responsibility
27because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate. 28You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people. 29You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.…

Cross References
Acts 23:5
"Brothers," Paul replied, "I was not aware that he was the high priest, for it is written: 'Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.'"

2 Peter 2:10
Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.

Exodus 22:9
In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any lost item that someone claims, 'This is mine,' both parties shall bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges find guilty must pay back double to his neighbor.

Leviticus 24:11
The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Leviticus 24:15
And you are to tell the Israelites, 'If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.

Leviticus 24:16
Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

2 Samuel 16:5
As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.


Treasury of Scripture

You shall not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of your people.

the gods.

Exodus 22:8,9
If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods…

Psalm 32:6
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

Psalm 82:1-7
A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods…

nor curse

Exodus 21:17
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

1 Samuel 24:6,10
And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD…

1 Samuel 26:9
And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?

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Exodus 22
1. Of Theft
5. Of damage
7. Of trespasses
14. Of borrowing
16. Of fornication
18. Of witchcraft
19. Of bestiality
20. Of idolatry
21. Of strangers, widows, and fatherless
25. Of usury
26. Of pledges
28. Of reverence to magistrates
29. Of the first fruits
31. Of torn flesh














(28) Thou shalt not revile the gods.--The LXX. And Vulgate give the passage this sense; and so it was understood, or at any rate expounded, by Philo (De Vit. Mos. ii. 26) and Josephus (Ant. Jud. iv. 8, ? 10), who boasted that the Jews abstained from reviling the gods of the nations. But the practice of the most pious Israelites in the best times was different (1Kings 18:27; Psalm 115:4-8; Psalm 135:15-18; Isaiah 41:29; Isaiah 44:9-20; Jeremiah 10:11-15, &c.). The gods of the heathen were uniformly, and with the utmost scorn. "reviled." It has been suggested that the true meaning of elohim in this place is "judges" (Rosenmller, Zunz, Herxheimer); but to have that sense, the word requires the article. It is best, therefore, to translate by "God," as is done by De Wette, Knobel, Keil, Kalisch, Canon Cook, &c., and to understand the entire passage as intended to connect the sin of cursing a ruler with that of reviling God, the ruler being regarded as God's representative. . . . Verse 28.- Law against reviling God, or rulers. It has been proposed to render Elohim here either

1. "God;" or

2. "The gods;" or

3

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You must not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

blaspheme
תְקַלֵּ֑ל (ṯə·qal·lêl)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7043: To be slight, swift or trifling

God
אֱלֹהִ֖ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

or curse
תָאֹֽר׃ (ṯā·’ōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 779: To execrate

the ruler
וְנָשִׂ֥יא (wə·nā·śî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5387: An exalted one, a king, sheik, a rising mist

of your people.
בְעַמְּךָ֖ (ḇə·‘am·mə·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock


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