ther, and he
who came to a betrothed maid, and an enticer to idolatry, and a withdrawer
to idolatry, and a sorcerer, and a son stubborn and rebellious.

5. The blasphemer was not guilty till he expressed the NAME. Said R.
Joshua, the son of Korcha, every day they examined the witnesses under a
substituted (feigned) name, for example, "Jose shall beat Jose." When the
judgment was finished, they could not execute him under the nickname, but
they withdrew all men outside, and interrogated the principal witness, and
said to him, "tell us clearly what thou hast heard?" and he said it. And
the judges stood up on their feet, and rent their garments,(402) and they
were never sewn again. And the second witness said, "even I (heard) as
he," and the third said, "even I (heard) as he."

6. One committed idolatry, whether he served the idol, or sacrificed to
it, or burned incense to it, or made a libation to it, or bowed down to
it, or accepted it for his god. And also, he who said to it, "thou art my
God." But he who embraced it, and kissed it, and honored it, and dusted
it, and washed it, and anointed it, and dressed it, and put shoes on it,
transgressed a negative command. He who vowed in its name, and performed
the vow in its name, transgressed a negative command. "He exposed himself
to Baal peor?" "That is positive service." "He cast a stone to Mercury?"
"That is positive service."

7. He who gave his seed to Molech(403) is not guilty till he hand it to
Molech, and pass it through the fire. "If he hand it to Molech, and do not
pass it through the fire, (or if) he passed it through the fire, and did
not hand it to Molech?" "He is not guilty till he hand it to Molech, and
pass it through the fire." One has a familiar spirit, when the Python
speaks from his arm. But the wizard speaks with his mouth. These are to be
stoned, and inquiry from them is forbidden.

8. He who profaned the Sabbath by aught which renders him guilty of
presumption is to be cut off;(404) but if he profaned the Sabbath in
error, a sin-offering (is required) from him. He who cursed father or
mother is not guilty till he curse them by the NAME. "If he curse them
with a substituted name of God?" R. Meier pronounces him "guilty"; but the
Sages "free him."

9. "If one came to a betrothed maid?" "He is not guilty, except she be a
virgin, and betrothed, and in the house of her father." "If two came to
her?" "The first is to be stoned and the second strangled."