Leviticus 24
1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
And the Lord said to Moses,
2 “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times,
3 Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come.
Outside the veil of the ark in the Tent of meeting; let Aaron see that it is burning from evening till morning at all times before the Lord: it is a rule for ever through all your generations.
4 He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.
5 You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.
6 and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.
7 And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
8 Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.
Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.
9 It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place; for it is to him a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD—his portion forever.”
And it will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to take it for food in a holy place: it is the most holy of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord, a rule for ever.
10 Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.
And a son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel and had a fight with a man of Israel by the tents;
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.)
And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
12 They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord.
13 Then the LORD said to Moses,
And the Lord said to Moses,
14 “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.
Take the curser outside the tent-circle; and let all in whose hearing the words were said put their hands on his head, and let him be stoned by all the people.
15 And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.
And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.
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.
And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.
17 And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.
18 Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.
And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.
19 If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:
And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him;
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.
Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.
21 Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.
22 You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.
23 Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, and they took the man who had been cursing outside the tent-circle and had him stoned. The children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
