Jabarkan Teks dari Inskripsi Nazaret

Inskripsi ini disusun dalam "bahasa Yunani yang agak buruk". Clyde E. Billington menerjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Inggris:SEG 8:13

It is my decision [concerning] graves and tombs—whoever has made them for the religious observances of parents, or children, or household members—that these remain undisturbed forever. But if anyone legally charges that another person has destroyed, or has in any manner extracted those who have been buried, or has moved with wicked intent those who have been buried to other places, committing a crime against them, or has moved sepulcher-sealing stones, against such a person, I order that a judicial tribunal be created, just as [is done] concerning the gods in human religious observances, even more so will it be obligatory to treat with honor those who have been entombed. You are absolutely not to allow anyone to move [those who have been entombed]. But if [someone does], I wish that [violator] to suffer capital punishment under the title of tomb-breaker.

Latar belakang hukum dan budaya Violatio sepulchri ("pengrusakan makam") adalah perbuatan kriminal menurut hukum Romawi, sebagaimana dicatat oleh Cicero (mati 43 SM). Inskripsi Nazaret menetapkan hukuman mati untuk pelanggaran ini. Sebuah makam di mana telah dilaksanakan ritus penguburan sepatutnya menjadi suatu locus religiosus, merupakan kepunyaan ilahi bukannya jagat manusia. Batu nisan Kekaisaran Romawi sering ditulisi suatu kutukan (defixio) terhadap barangsiapa yang merusak makam itu .