Leviticus 24
1 The Lord told Moses,
And the Lord said to Moses,
2 “Order the Israelites to bring you pure, pressed olive oil for the lamps, so they will always stay lit.
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 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.
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 is to constantly look after the lamps placed on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.
Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.
5 Using the best flour bake twelve loaves, with two-tenths of an ephah of flour per loaf.
And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.
6 Place them in two piles, six in each pile, on the table made of pure gold that stands before the Lord.
And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.
7 Place pure frankincense beside each pile to go with the bread to act as the ‘reminder part,’ a food offering 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 shall be placed before the Lord, given by the Israelites as an ongoing sign of the eternal agreement.
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 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.”
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 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.
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 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.)
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 detained him until it was clear what the Lord wanted them to do about it.
And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord.
13 The Lord told Moses,
And the Lord said to Moses,
14 “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.
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 Tell the Israelites that anyone who curses their God will be punished for their sin.
And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.
16 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.
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 Anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.
18 Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it—a life for a 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 someone else, whatever they've done must be done to them:
And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him;
20 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.
Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.
21 Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it, but anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
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 The same laws apply to foreigners who live with you as to Israelites, 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 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.
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.
