Leviticus 24
1 The Lord told Moses,
And the LORD spake unto 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 pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn 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 tent of meeting, shall Aaron order it from evening to morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.
4 He is to constantly look after the lamps placed on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.
He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
5 Using the best flour bake twelve loaves, with two-tenths of an ephah of flour per loaf.
And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts [of an ephah] shall be in one cake.
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 in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure 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 pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto 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 he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, 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 it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
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 the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
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 Israelitish woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed: and they brought him unto Moses. And 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 put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of the LORD.
13 The Lord told Moses,
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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.
Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
15 Tell the Israelites that anyone who curses their God will be punished for their sin.
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever 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, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as the homeborn, when he blasphemeth the name [of the LORD], shall be put to death.
17 Anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death;
18 Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it—a life for a life.
and he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for life.
19 If anyone injures someone else, whatever they've done must be done to them:
And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; 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: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him.
21 Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it, but anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall 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.”
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for the homeborn: 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 spake to the children of Israel, and they brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
