Leviticus 24
1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
The Lord told Moses,
2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
“Order the Israelites to bring you pure, pressed olive oil for the lamps, so they will always stay lit.
3 Without the veil of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening to the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
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 order the lamps on the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
He is to constantly look after the lamps placed on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.
5 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
Using the best flour bake twelve loaves, with two-tenths of an ephah of flour per loaf.
6 And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure table 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 shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even 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 he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting 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 And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
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 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
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 And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him to Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the 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 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be showed them.
They detained him until it was clear what the Lord wanted them to do about it.
13 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
The Lord told Moses,
14 Bring forth him that has cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation 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 shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
Tell the Israelites that anyone who curses their God will be punished for their sin.
16 And he that blasphemes the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemes the name of the Lord, shall 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 he that kills any man shall surely be put to death.
Anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
18 And he that kills a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it—a life for a life.
19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him;
If anyone injures someone else, whatever they've done must be done to them:
20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
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 And he that kills a beast, he shall restore it: and he that kills a man, he shall be put to death.
Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it, but anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
22 You shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: 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 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD 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.
