Leviticus 24
1 Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
The Lord told Moses,
2 “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.
“Order the Israelites to bring you pure, pressed olive oil for the lamps, so they will always stay lit.
3 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.
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 Those lampstands that burn in my presence must be taken care of continually.
He is to constantly look after the lamps placed on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.
5 “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.
Using the best flour bake twelve loaves, with two-tenths of an ephah of flour per loaf.
6 Put the loaves in two rows, with six loaves in each row, on the table covered with pure gold, in my presence.
Place them in two piles, six in each pile, on the table made of pure gold that stands before the Lord.
7 Along each row, place [in some gold cups] some pure incense to be burned to be an offering to me instead of the bread.
Place pure frankincense beside each pile to go with the bread to act as the ‘reminder part,’ a food offering to the Lord.
8 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.
Every Sabbath day the bread shall be placed before the Lord, given by the Israelites as an ongoing sign of the eternal agreement.
9 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.”
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 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].
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.
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 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].
They detained him until it was clear what the Lord wanted them to do about it.
13 Then Yahweh said to Moses/me,
The Lord told Moses,
14 “[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.
“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 Tell the Israelis, ‘If anyone curses me, he must (endure the consequences/be punished).
Tell the Israelites that anyone who curses their God will be punished for their sin.
16 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.’
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 “Also, If anyone murders another person, he must be executed.
Anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
18 And anyone who kills [another person’s] animal must give that person a live animal to replace the one that he killed.
Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it—a life for a life.
19 And if one person injures another person, the injured person is allowed to injure the person who injured him in the same way:
If anyone injures someone else, whatever they've done must be done to them:
20 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.
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 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.
Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it, but anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
22 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].”
The same laws apply to foreigners who live with you as to Israelites, for I am the Lord your God.”
23 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].
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.
