Leviticus 24

Care of the Tabernacle Lamps

24Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ^2a“Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually. ³Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of meeting, Aaron shall be in charge of it from evening until morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute forever in your generations. ⁴He shall ¹be in charge of the lamps on ^bthe pure gold lampstand before the Lord continually.

The Bread of the Tabernacle

⁵“And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve ^ccakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. ⁶You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, ^don the pure gold table before the Lord. ⁷And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a ^ememorial, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^8fEvery Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. ⁹And ^git shall be for Aaron and his sons, ^hand they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, by a perpetual statute.”

The Penalty for Blasphemy

¹⁰Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp. ¹¹And the Israelite woman’s son ⁱblasphemed the name of the Lord and ^jcursed; and so they ^kbrought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.) ¹²Then they ^lput him ²in custody, ^mthat ³the mind of the Lord might be shown to them.

¹³And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴“Take outside the camp him who has cursed; then let all who heard him ⁿlay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

¹⁵“Then you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Whoever curses his God ^oshall ⁴bear his sin. ¹⁶And whoever ^pblasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him, the stranger as well as him who is born in the land. When he blasphemes the name of the Lord, he shall be put to death.

^17q‘Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death. ^18rWhoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal.

¹⁹‘If a man causes disfigurement of his neighbor, as ^she has done, so shall it be done to him—²⁰fracture for ^tfracture, ^ueye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused disfigurement of a man, so shall it be done to him. ²¹And whoever kills an animal shall restore it; but whoever kills a man shall be put to death. ²²You shall have ^vthe ⁵same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the Lord your God.’ ”

²³Then Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they took outside the camp him who had cursed, and stoned him with stones. So the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.