24Then^a Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Command the Israelites^b that^c they should bring to you pure olive oil from beaten olives for the light to present^d a lamp continually. ³Aaron shall arrange for it outside^e the curtain of the testimony in the tent of assembly from evening until morning before^f Yahweh continually; it shall be a lasting statute^g throughout your generations. ⁴On the pure golden^h lampstand he shall arrange for the lamps beforeⁱ Yahweh continually.

⁵“And you shall take finely milled flour, and you shall bake with it twelve ring-shaped bread cakes: each one shall be two-tenths of an ephah. ⁶And you shall place them in two rows, six to the row, on the pure gold^j table before^k Yahweh. ⁷And you shall put pure frankincense on each^l row so that^m it shall be for the bread as a memorial offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh. ⁸On every Sabbathⁿ he shall arrange it in rows before^o Yahweh continually; they are from the Israelites^p as an everlasting^q covenant. ⁹And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy thing^r for him from Yahweh’s offerings made by fire—a lasting rule.”^s

Punishment for Blasphemy

¹⁰And an Israelite woman’s son, and he was an Egyptian man’s son, went out in the midst of the Israelites;^t and the Israelite woman’s son and an^u Israelite man fought in the camp. ¹¹Then^v the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the name, and he cursed, so^w they brought him to Moses—and the name of his mother was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ¹²Then^x they put him in custody so that^y the matter might be made clear to them in accordance with the mouth of Yahweh.

¹³Then^z Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴“Bring the curser outside the camp,^a and all the hearers shall place their hands on his head, and the whole community shall stone him. ¹⁵And you shall speak to the Israelites,^b saying, ‘Any man^c when he curses his God shall bear^d his sin. ¹⁶And he who blasphemes Yahweh’s name certainly shall be put to death; the whole community certainly shall stone him. As the alien, so the native shall be put to death at blaspheming his name.

¹⁷“ ‘And when a man kills any human being, he certainly shall be put to death. ¹⁸And he who kills^e a domestic animal must repay for it life in place of life. ¹⁹And when a man causes^f a physical defect in his fellow citizen according to^g what he has done, so it shall be done to him: ²⁰fracture in place of fracture, eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth—according to^h the physical defect he causesⁱ to the person, likewise it shall be caused^j to him. ²¹And a killer of a domestic animal must repay for it, and a killer of a human shall be put to death. ²²You must have^k one norm; as for the alien, so^l it must be for the native, because I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

²³Thus^m Moses spoke to the Israelites,ⁿ and they brought the curser outside the camp,^o and they stoned him with stones, and the Israelites^p did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

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Footnotes

aOr “And”
bLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
cOr “and”
dLiterally “to cause raising up”; or “set up” (HALOT 830 s.v. 4.d)
eLiterally “from the outside of to”
fLiterally “to the faces of”
gLiterally “a statute of eternity” or “a statute of long duration”
hSupplied by context and the description of the lampstand in Exod 25:31
iLiterally “to the faces of”
jSupplied by context and the description of the table in Exod 25:24
kLiterally “to the faces of”
lHebrew “the”
mOr “and”
nLiterally “On the day of the Sabbath on the day of the Sabbath”
oLiterally “to the faces of”
pLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
qOr “eternal” or “enduring” or “perpetual”
rLiterally “a holy thing of holy things”
sLiterally “rule of eternity” or “rule of long duration”
tLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
uHebrew “the”
vOr “And”
wOr “and”
xOr “And”
yLiterally “to”
zOr “And”
aLiterally “to from an outside place of the camp”
bLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
cLiterally “A man a man”
dOr “and he shall bear”
eLiterally “he who kills the soul of” or “he who kills the life of”
fLiterally “gives”
gLiterally “as that”
hLiterally “as that”
iLiterally “gives”
jLiterally “given”
kLiterally “it shall be for you”
lHebrew “as”
mOr “And”
nLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
oLiterally “to from an outside place of the camp”
pLiterally “sons/children of Israel”