Leviticus 24
1 The Lord told Moses,
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 “Order the Israelites to bring you pure, pressed olive oil for the lamps, so they will always stay lit.
Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee the finest and dearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps continually,
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.
Without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the covenant. And Aaron shall set them from evening until morning before the Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations.
4 He is to constantly look after the lamps placed on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.
They shall be set upon the most pure candlestick before the Lord continually.
5 Using the best flour bake twelve loaves, with two-tenths of an ephah of flour per loaf.
Thou shalt take also fine hour, and shalt bake twelve leaves thereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf:
6 Place them in two piles, six in each pile, on the table made of pure gold that stands before the Lord.
And thou shalt set them six and six one against another upon the most clean 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 thou shalt put upon them the dearest frankincense, that the bread may be for a memorial of the oblation of 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 they shall be changed before the Lord, being received of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant:
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 they shall be Aaron’s and his sons’, that they may eat them in the holy place: because it is most holy of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual right.
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 behold there went out the son of a woman of Israel, whom she had of an Egyptian, among the children of Israel, and fell at words in the camp with a man of Israel.
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 when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses: (now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan: )
12 They detained him until it was clear what the Lord wanted them to do about it.
And they put him into prison, till they might know what the Lord would command.
13 The Lord told Moses,
And the Lord spoke 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.
Saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp, and let them that heard him, put their hands upon his head, and let all the people stone him.
15 Tell the Israelites that anyone who curses their God will be punished for their sin.
And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel: the man that curseth his God, shall bear his sin:
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 that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die: all the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.
17 Anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
He that striketh and killeth a man, dying let him die.
18 Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it—a life for a life.
He that killeth a beast, shall make it good, that is to say, shall give beast for beast.
19 If anyone injures someone else, whatever they've done must be done to them:
He that giveth a blemish to any of his neighbours: as he hath done, so shall 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.
Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, shall he restore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to suffer.
21 Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it, but anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
He that striketh a beast, shall render another. He that striketh a man shall be punished.
22 The same laws apply to foreigners who live with you as to Israelites, for I am the Lord your God.”
Let there be equal judgment among you, whether he be a stranger, or a native that offends: because 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 spoke to the children of Israel: and they brought forth him that had blasphemed, without the camp, and they stoned him. And the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
