Leviticus 24

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

Then the LORD said to Moses,

2 “Command the sons of Israel, and they bring pure oil of beaten olive to you for the lamp, to cause a light to go up continually;

“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

3 Aaron arranges it at the outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, from evening until morning before YHWH continually—a continuous statute throughout your generations;

Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come.

4 he arranges the lights on the pure lampstand before YHWH continually.

He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

5 And you have taken flour, and have baked twelve cakes with it, two-tenth parts are in one cake,

You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,

6 and you have set them [in] two rows (six in the row) on the pure table before YHWH,

and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

7 and you have put pure frankincense on the row, and it has been with the bread for a memorial, a fire-offering to YHWH.

And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

8 On each Sabbath day he arranges it before YHWH continually, from the sons of Israel—a perpetual covenant;

Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.

9 and it has been for Aaron and for his sons, and they have eaten it in the holy place, for it [is] most holy to him, from the fire-offerings of YHWH—a continuous statute.”

It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place; for it is to him a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD—his portion forever.”

10 And a son of an Israeli woman goes out (and he [is] son of an Egyptian man) in the midst of the sons of Israel, and the son of the Israeli woman and a man of Israel strive in the camp,

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

11 and the son of the Israeli woman execrates the Name and reviles; and they bring him to Moses; and his mother’s name [is] Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan;

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

12 and he causes him to rest in confinement —to explain to them by the mouth of YHWH.

They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.

13 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

Then the LORD said to Moses,

14 “Bring out the reviler to the outside of the camp; and all those hearing have laid their hands on his head, and all the congregation has stoned him.

“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

15 And you speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When any man reviles his God—then he has borne his sin;

And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.

16 and he who is execrating the Name of YHWH is certainly put to death; all the congregation certainly casts stones at him; as a sojourner so a native, in his execrating the Name, he is put to death.

Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

17 And when a man strikes any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.

And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.

18 And he who strikes a beast repays it, body for body.

Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.

19 And when a man puts a blemish in his fellow, as he has done so it is done to him;

If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:

20 breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he puts a blemish in a man so it is done in him.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.

21 And he who strikes a beast repays it, and he who strikes [the life of] man is put to death.

Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.

22 One judgment is for you; as a sojourner so is a native; for I [am] your God YHWH.”

You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”

23 And Moses speaks to the sons of Israel, and they bring out the reviler to the outside of the camp, and stone him [with] stone; and the sons of Israel have done as YHWH has commanded Moses.

Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.