Leviticus 24

The Lamps

24^bThe Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. ³Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. ⁴He shall arrange the lamps on the ^clampstand of pure gold¹ before the Lord regularly.

Bread for the Tabernacle

⁵“You shall take fine flour and bake twelve ^dloaves from it; two tenths of an ephah² shall be in each loaf. ⁶And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, ^eon the table of pure gold³ before the Lord. ⁷And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord. ^8fEvery Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever. ⁹And ^git shall be for Aaron and his sons, and ^hthey shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord’s food offerings, a perpetual due.”

Punishment for Blasphemy

¹⁰Now an Israelite woman’s son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel. And the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought in the camp, ¹¹and the Israelite woman’s son ⁱblasphemed the ^jName, and cursed. Then they ^kbrought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ¹²And ^lthey put him in custody, ^mtill the will of the Lord should be clear to them.

¹³Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴ⁿ“Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him ^olay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. ¹⁵And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall ^pbear his sin. ¹⁶Whoever ^qblasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

An Eye for an Eye

^17r“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death. ^18sWhoever takes an animal’s life shall make it good, life for life. ¹⁹If anyone injures his neighbor, ^tas he has done it shall be done to him, ²⁰fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him. ^21sWhoever kills an animal shall make it good, ^rand whoever kills a person shall be put to death. ²²You shall have the ^usame rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the Lord your God.” ²³So Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and ^vthey brought out of the camp the one who had cursed and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.