Leviticus 24

1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Yahweh also said to Moses/me,

2 “Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn 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 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually. It shall be a statute forever 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 shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before the LORD continually.

Those lampstands that burn in my presence must be taken care of continually.

5 “You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be 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 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.

Put the loaves in two rows, with six loaves in each row, on the table covered with pure gold, in my presence.

7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD.

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 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel.

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 It shall be for Aaron and his sons. They shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual 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 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out amongst the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together 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 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

12 They put him in custody until the LORD’s will should be declared to them.

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 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh said to Moses/me,

14 “Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone 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 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

Tell the Israelis, ‘If anyone curses me, he must (endure the consequences/be punished).

16 He who blasphemes the LORD’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.

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 “‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

“Also, If anyone murders another person, he must be executed.

18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

And anyone who kills [another person’s] animal must give that person a live animal to replace the one that he killed.

19 If anyone injures his neighbour, it shall be done to him as he has done:

And if one person injures another person, the injured person is allowed to injure the person who injured him in the same way:

20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone.

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 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be 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 You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am the LORD your God.’”

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 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as the LORD 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].