Leviticus 24
1 The Lord told Moses,
Yahweh 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 people of Israel to bring you pure oil beaten from olives to be used in the lamp, that the light may 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.
Outside the curtain before the covenant decrees in the tent of meeting, Aaron must continually, from evening to morning, keep the lamp lit before Yahweh. This will be a permanent statute throughout your people's generations.
4 He is to constantly look after the lamps placed on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.
The high priest must always keep the lamps lit before Yahweh, the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold.
5 Using the best flour bake twelve loaves, with two-tenths of an ephah of flour per loaf.
You must take fine flour and bake twelve loaves with it. There must be two-tenths of an ephah in each loaf.
6 Place them in two piles, six in each pile, on the table made of pure gold that stands before the Lord.
Then you must set them in two rows, six in a row, on the table of pure gold before Yahweh.
7 Place pure frankincense beside each pile to go with the bread to act as the ‘reminder part,’ a food offering to the Lord.
You must put pure incense along each row of loaves as a representative offering. This incense will be burnt for Yahweh.
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 the high priest must regularly set out the bread before Yahweh on behalf of the people of Israel, as a sign of 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.”
This offering will be for Aaron and his sons, and they are to eat it in a place that is holy, for it is a portion from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire.”
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.
Now it happened that the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went among the people of Israel. This son of the Israelite woman fought against an Israelite man 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.)
The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the name of Yahweh and cursed God, so the people brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan.
12 They detained him until it was clear what the Lord wanted them to do about it.
They held him in custody until Yahweh himself should declare his will to them.
13 The Lord told Moses,
Then Yahweh spoke to 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.
“Take the man who has cursed God outside the camp. All who heard him must lay their hands on his head, and then the entire assembly must stone him.
15 Tell the Israelites that anyone who curses their God will be punished for their sin.
You must explain to the people of Israel and say, 'Whoever curses his God must carry his own guilt.
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.
He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh must surely be put to death. All the assembly must certainly stone him, whether he is a foreigner or a native-born Israelite. If anyone blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he must be put to death.
17 Anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
If anyone strikes down another human being, he must certainly be put to death.
18 Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it—a life for a life.
If anyone strikes down someone's animal, he must pay it back, life for life.
19 If anyone injures someone else, whatever they've done must be done to them:
If anyone injures his neighbor, it must be done to him as he did to his neighbor:
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.
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has caused an injury to a person, so must it also be done to him.
21 Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it, but anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
Anyone who kills an animal must pay it back, and anyone who kills a person must 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 must have the same law for both the foreigner and the native-born Israelite, for I am Yahweh 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.
So Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and the people brought the man outside the camp, the one who had cursed Yahweh. They stoned him with stones. The people of Israel carried out the command of Yahweh to Moses.
