Leviticus 24
1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
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 Israeli people to continually bring to you clear oil made from pressed olives to burn in the lamps [in the Sacred Tent], in order that those lamps will burn all the time.
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 curtain of the Very Holy Place, Aaron must take care of the lamps in my presence continually, in order that they will burn all during the night. That regulation must be obeyed forever.
4 he arranges the lights on the pure lampstand before YHWH continually.
Those lampstands that burn in my presence must be taken care of continually.
5 And you have taken flour, and have baked twelve cakes with it, two-tenth parts are in one cake,
“Also, [each week] you must take some fine flour and bake twelve [very big] loaves of bread, using about four quarts/liters of flour for each loaf.
6 and you have set them [in] two rows (six in the row) on the pure table before YHWH,
Put the loaves in two rows, with six loaves in each row, on the table covered with pure gold, in my presence.
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.
Along each row, place [in some gold cups] some pure incense to be burned to be an offering to me instead of the bread.
8 On each Sabbath day he arranges it before YHWH continually, from the sons of Israel—a perpetual covenant;
New/Fresh loaves of bread must be put [on the table] each Sabbath day, to signify the agreement that will never end, that I have made with you Israeli people.
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.”
The bread [that is taken off the table] belongs to Aaron and his sons. They must eat it in a holy place, because it is a very holy part of the offerings that are given to me by being burned.”
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,
There was a man whose mother’s name was Shelomith; she was an Israeli whose father was Dibri from the tribe of Dan. And that man’s father was from Egypt. One day that man and another Israeli man started to fight inside the camp. And while they were fighting, that man cursed Yahweh [MTY].
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;
12 and he causes him to rest in confinement —to explain to them by the mouth of YHWH.
So the Israeli people seized him and guarded him until they could find out what Yahweh would reveal to them [that they should do to that man].
13 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me,
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.
“[Tie up and] take outside the camp the man who has cursed me. There all those who heard what he said must put their hands on his head [to indicate that he is guilty], and then all the people must [kill him by] throwing stones at him.
15 And you speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When any man reviles his God—then he has borne his sin;
Tell the Israelis, ‘If anyone curses me, he must (endure the consequences/be punished).
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.
So anyone who curses me [MTY] must be executed. All the people must throw stones at him. It does not matter if he is a foreigner or an Israeli citizen; anyone who curses me must be executed.’
17 And when a man strikes any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.
“Also, If anyone murders another person, he must be executed.
18 And he who strikes a beast repays it, body for body.
And anyone who kills [another person’s] animal must give that person a live animal to replace the one that he killed.
19 And when a man puts a blemish in his fellow, as he has done so it is done to him;
And if one person injures another person, the injured person is allowed to injure the person who injured him in the same way:
20 breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he puts a blemish in a man so it is done in him.
If someone breaks one of another person’s bones, that person is allowed to break one of the bones of the person who injured him. If someone gouges out an eye of another person, that person is allowed to gouge out the eye of the person who injured him. If someone knocks out the tooth of another person, that person is allowed to knock out one of his teeth. What is done to the offender must be the same as what he did to the other person.
21 And he who strikes a beast repays it, and he who strikes [the life of] man is put to death.
Whoever kills [another person’s] animal must give that person a live animal to replace the one that he killed, but anyone who murders another person must be executed.
22 One judgment is for you; as a sojourner so is a native; for I [am] your God YHWH.”
That law applies to you Israelis and and also to the foreigners who live among you; I, Yahweh your God [am the one who has commanded it].”
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/I told the Israelis [what they must do to the man who cursed Yahweh], so they took the man outside the camp and [killed him by] throwing stones at him. They did what Yahweh commanded Moses/me [to tell them to do].
