Leviticus 24
1 Adonai spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 “Enjoin the children of Israel [God prevails], that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a menorah ·lamp· to burn continually.
Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee the finest and dearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps continually,
3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron [Light-bringer] keep it in order from evening to morning before Adonai continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout all your generations.
Without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the covenant. And Aaron shall set them from evening until morning before the Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations.
4 He shall keep in order the lamp candles on the pure gold menorah ·lamp· before Adonai continually.
They shall be set upon the most pure candlestick before the Lord continually.
5 “You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: one tenth of an ephah [two omers; 4.6 q; 4.4 L] shall be in one cake.
Thou shalt take also fine hour, and shalt bake twelve leaves thereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf:
6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Adonai.
And thou shalt set them six and six one against another upon the most clean table before the Lord:
7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Adonai.
And thou shalt put upon them the dearest frankincense, that the bread may be for a memorial of the oblation of the Lord.
8 Every Sabbath ·To cease· day he shall set it in order before Adonai continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel [God prevails] an everlasting covenant.
Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord, being received of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant:
9 It shall be for Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Adonai made by fire by a perpetual statute.”
And they shall be Aaron’s and his sons’, that they may eat them in the holy place: because it is most holy of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual right.
10 The son of an Israelite [Descendant of God prevails] woman, whose father was an Egyptian [person from Abode of slavery], went out among the children of Israel [God prevails]; and the son of the Israelite [Descendant of God prevails] woman and a man of Israel [God prevails] strove together in the camp.
And behold there went out the son of a woman of Israel, whom she had of an Egyptian, among the children of Israel, and fell at words in the camp with a man of Israel.
11 The son of the Israelite [Descendant of God prevails] woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses [Drawn out]. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan [He judged].
And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses: (now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan: )
12 They put him in custody, until Adonai’s will should be declared to them.
And they put him into prison, till they might know what the Lord would command.
13 Adonai spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,
And the Lord spoke to Moses,
14 “Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who sh'ma ·heard obeyed· him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
Saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp, and let them that heard him, put their hands upon his head, and let all the people stone him.
15 You shall speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel: the man that curseth his God, shall bear his sin:
16 He who blasphemes Adonai’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die: all the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.
17 “‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
He that striketh and killeth a man, dying let him die.
18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.
He that killeth a beast, shall make it good, that is to say, shall give beast for beast.
19 If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:
He that giveth a blemish to any of his neighbours: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.
Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, shall he restore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to suffer.
21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
He that striketh a beast, shall render another. He that striketh a man shall be punished.
22 You shall have one kind of judgment for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Adonai your God.’”
Let there be equal judgment among you, whether he be a stranger, or a native that offends: because I am the Lord your God.
23 Moses [Drawn out] spoke to the children of Israel [God prevails]; and they brought out him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel [God prevails] did as Adonai enjoined Moses [Drawn out].
And Moses spoke to the children of Israel: and they brought forth him that had blasphemed, without the camp, and they stoned him. And the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
