Leviticus 24

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The Oil for the Lamps

¹Then the LORD said to Moses,

¹And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

²“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

²“Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you pure olive oil, pressed, for the light, to make the lamps to go up continually.

³Outside the veil of the Testimony^a 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.

³Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening until morning before the face of YHWH continually; it is an everlasting statute in your generations.

⁴He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

⁴On the pure gold lampstand He shall arrange the lamps before the face of YHWH continually.

The Showbread

⁵You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,^a

⁵And you shall take fine flour and bake with it two and ten cakes; two tenths of an ephah shall be one cake.

⁶and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

⁶And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the face of YHWH.

⁷And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, a food offering to the LORD.

⁷And you shall put on each row pure frankincense, that it may be with the bread for a memorial, a fire offering to YHWH.

⁸Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.

⁸On the Sabbath day by Sabbath day he shall arrange it before the face of YHWH continually on behalf of the sons of Israel as an everlasting covenant.

⁹It 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 food offerings to the LORD—his portion forever.”

⁹And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place. For it is holy of holies to him from the fire offerings of YHWH—an everlasting statute.”

Punishment for Blasphemy

¹⁰Now 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.

¹⁰And a son of a woman, an Israelitess, went out (and he the son of an Egyptian man) in the midst of the sons of Israel. And this son of the Israelitess and a man of the Israelites fought each other in the camp.

¹¹The 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.)

¹¹And the son of the woman, the Israelitess, blasphemed the Name and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. And His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

¹²They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.

¹²And they put him in custody, that it might be shown to them upon the mouth of YHWH.

¹³Then the LORD said to Moses,

¹³And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁴“Take the blasphemer^a outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

¹⁴“Take him who has cursed to the outside of the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

¹⁵And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.

¹⁵And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If any man curses his God, then he shall bear his sin.

¹⁶Whoever 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.

¹⁶And whoever blasphemes the name of YHWH must surely be put to death. All the congregation must surely stone him, as the sojourner, as the native; when he blasphemes the name he shall be put to death.

An Eye for an Eye

¹⁷And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.

¹⁷And whoever kills any man, he must surely be put to death.

¹⁸Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.

¹⁸And he who kills an animal shall make it good—the life of animal for animal.

¹⁹If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:

¹⁹And if a man causes disfigurement of his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

²⁰fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.^a Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.

²⁰Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has caused disfigurement in the man, so shall it be done to him.

²¹Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.

²¹And whoever kills an animal shall restore it; and whoever kills a man, he shall be put to death.

²²You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”

²²You shall have one law. As the sojourner it shall be as the native, for I am YHWH your God.’”

²³Then 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.

²³And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they took him who had cursed to the outside of the camp, and they stoned him with stones. And the sons of Israel did as YHWH had commanded Moses.