Leviticus 24

The Lamp

²⁴The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.^{* 3}Aaron shall set it up in the tent of meeting, outside the curtain of the covenant, to burn from evening to morning before the Lord regularly; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. ⁴He shall set up the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold^f before the Lord regularly.^*

The Bread for the Tabernacle

⁵“You shall take choice flour and bake twelve loaves of it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.^{* 6}You shall place them in two rows, six in a row, on the table of pure gold before the Lord.^{g* 7}You shall put pure frankincense with each row, to be a token offering for the bread, as an offering by fire^h to the Lord. ⁸Every Sabbath day Aaron shall set them in order before the Lord regularly as a commitment of the Israelites, as a covenant forever.^{* 9}They shall be for Aaron and his descendants, who shall eat them in a holy place, for they are most holy portions for him from the offerings by fireⁱ to the Lord, a perpetual due.”^*

Blasphemy and Its Punishment

¹⁰A man whose mother was an Israelite and whose father was an Egyptian came out among the Israelites, and the Israelite woman’s son and a certain Israelite began fighting in the camp. ¹¹The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name in a curse. And they brought him to Moses—now his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan^*—¹²and they put him in custody, until the decision of the Lord should be made clear to them.^*

¹³The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and let all who were within hearing lay their hands on his head, and let the whole congregation stone him.^{* 15}And speak to the Israelites, saying: Anyone who curses God shall incur guilt. ¹⁶One who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death; the whole congregation shall stone the blasphemer. Aliens as well as the native-born, when they blaspheme the Name, shall be put to death.^{* 17}Anyone who kills a human being shall be put to death.^{* 18}Anyone who kills an animal shall make restitution for it, life for life.^{* 19}Anyone who maims another shall suffer the same injury in return: ²⁰fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to be suffered.^{* 21}One who kills an animal shall make restitution for it, but one who kills a human being shall be put to death.^{* 22}You shall have one law for the alien and for the native-born, for I am the Lord your God.”^{* 23}Moses spoke thus to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him to death. The Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses.