by name and leads

Growing up not in the Word, I never understood the context for lots of commandments, nor understood the severity of breaking particular laws. The best thing about the OT is that it provides such a context, and clarifies such severity. Case in point: Name in vain.

Who doesn't have friends who occasionally Namevain? I on occasion growing up did such vaining. And these breaks are never because of purposeful spite, but rather of complete ignorance of how clearly this vaining is to end.

Lev24 makes it more than clear. Shelomith's rascal blasphemes the Name and severity could not be more. This touches on the identity thing we've raised here on multiple occasions. You can try to argue and see which of the many names He holds is under scrutiny here, but you're wasting your time. Name=identity, ergo it doesn't matter.