Leviticus 24

Tabernacle Oil and Bread

24The Lord spoke to Moses: ²“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning continually. ^o3Aaron is to tend it continually from evening until morning before the Lord outside the veil ^pof the testimony ^qin the tent of meeting. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations. ⁴He must continually tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand in the Lord’s presence. ^r

⁵“Take fine flour and bake it into 12 loaves; ^seach loaf is to be made with four quarts. ^t6Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table ^ubefore the Lord. ⁷Place pure frankincense ^vnear each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion ^wfor the bread and a fire offering ^xto the Lord. ⁸The bread is to be set out before the Lord every Sabbath day as a perpetual covenant ^yobligation on the part of the Israelites. ⁹It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, for it is the holiest portion for him from the fire offerings to the Lord; this is a permanent rule.”

A Case of Blasphemy

¹⁰Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father was ^zamong the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man. ¹¹Her son cursed and blasphemed the Name, ^aand they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, a daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan. ^b) ¹²They put him in custody ^cuntil the Lord’s decision ^dcould be made clear to them.

¹³Then the Lord spoke to Moses: ¹⁴“Bring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him. ^e15And tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin. ¹⁶Whoever blasphemes the name of Yahweh is to be put to death; ^fthe whole community must stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the foreign resident or the native.

¹⁷“If a man kills anyone, he must be put to death. ^g18Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, life for life. ¹⁹If any man inflicts a permanent injury on his neighbor, whatever he has done is to be done to him: ²⁰fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he inflicted on the person, the same is to be inflicted on him. ^h21Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, but whoever kills a person is to be put to death. ⁱ²²You are to have the same law for the foreign resident and the native, because I am Yahweh your God.”

²³After Moses spoke to the Israelites, they brought the one who had cursed to the outside of the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses.