Leviticus 24
1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
The Lord told Moses,
2 “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
“Order the Israelites to bring you pure, pressed olive oil for the lamps, so they will always stay lit.
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.
From evening until morning Aaron is to constantly look after the lamps continually before the Lord, outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting. This regulation is for all time and for all future generations.
4 He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
He is to constantly look after the lamps placed on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.
5 You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
Using the best flour bake twelve loaves, with two-tenths of an ephah of flour per loaf.
6 and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
Place them in two piles, six in each pile, on the table made of pure gold that stands 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.
Place pure frankincense beside each pile to go with the bread to act as the ‘reminder part,’ a food offering 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 the bread shall be placed before the Lord, given by the Israelites as an ongoing sign of the eternal agreement.
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.”
It is for Aaron and his descendants. They are to eat it in a holy place; for they must treat it as a most holy part of the food offerings given to the Lord. It is their share of the food offerings for all time.”
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.
One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went into the Israelite camp and had a fight with an Israelite.
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.)
The Israelite woman's son cursed the name of the Lord. So they took him before Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan.)
12 They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
They detained him until it was clear what the Lord wanted them to do about it.
13 Then the LORD said to Moses,
The Lord told 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 man who cursed me outside the camp. Have all who heard him curse put their hands on his head; then have everyone stone him to death.
15 And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.
Tell the Israelites that anyone who curses their God will be punished for their sin.
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.
Anyone who curses the name of the Lord must to be executed. All of you must stone them to death, whether they are a foreigner who lives with you or an Israelite. If they curse my name, they must be executed.
17 And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
Anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
18 Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.
Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it—a life for a life.
19 If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:
If anyone injures someone else, whatever they've done must be done to them:
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.
a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Whatever way they injured the victim, the same must be done to them.
21 Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it, but anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
22 You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
The same laws apply to foreigners who live with you as to Israelites, 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.
Moses told this to the Israelites, and they took the man who cursed the Lord outside the camp and stoned him to death. The Israelites did what the Lord ordered Moses to do.
