| 1 | And the Lord said to Moses, |
| 2 | Command the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil from beaten olives for the light [of the golden lampstand] to cause a lamp to burn continually. |
| 3 | Outside the veil of the Testimony [between the Holy and the Most Holy Places] 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. |
| 4 | He shall keep the lamps in order upon the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord continually. |
| 5 | And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake [of the showbread
or
bread of the Presence]. |
| 6 | And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the table of pure gold before the Lord. |
| 7 | You shall put pure frankincense [in a bowl or spoon] beside each row, that it may be with the bread as a memorial portion, an offering to be made by fire to the Lord. |
| 8 | Every Sabbath day Aaron shall set the showbread in order before the Lord continually; it is on behalf of the Israelites, an everlasting covenant. |
| 9 | And the bread shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a sacred place, for it is for [Aaron] a most holy portion of the offerings to the Lord made by fire, a perpetual due [to the high priest]. |
| 10 | Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the Israelites, and he and a man of Israel quarreled
and
strove together in the camp. |
| 11 | The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name [of the Lord] and cursed. They brought him to Moses—his mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. |
| 12 | And they put him in custody until the will of the Lord might be declared to them. |
| 13 | And the Lord said to Moses, |
| 14 | Bring him who has cursed out of the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head; then let all the congregation stone him. |
| 15 | And you shall say to the Israelites, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. |
| 16 | And he who blasphemes the Name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him; the stranger as well as he who was born in the land shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name [of the Lord]. |
| 17 | And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death. |
| 18 | And he who kills a beast shall make it good, beast for beast. |
| 19 | And if a man causes a blemish
or
disfigurement on his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done: |
| 20 | Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish
or
disfigurement on a man, so shall it be done to him. |
| 21 | He who kills a beast shall replace it; he who kills a man shall be put to death. |
| 22 | You shall have the same law for the sojourner among you as for one of your own nationality, for I am the Lord your God. |
| 23 | Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp and stoned him with stones. Thus the Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses. |
Cross references:
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Leviticus 24:4 : Rev. 1:12-18.
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Leviticus 24:20 : Matt. 5:38-42; 7:2.
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