Leviticus 24
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
And the Lord said to Moses,
2 “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil beaten from olives to be used in the lamp, that the light may burn continually.
Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times,
3 Outside the curtain before the covenant decrees in the tent of meeting, Aaron must continually, from evening to morning, keep the lamp lit before Yahweh. This will be a permanent statute throughout your people's generations.
Outside the veil of the ark in the Tent of meeting; let Aaron see that it is burning from evening till morning at all times before the Lord: it is a rule for ever through all your generations.
4 The high priest must always keep the lamps lit before Yahweh, the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold.
Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.
5 You must take fine flour and bake twelve loaves with it. There must be two-tenths of an ephah in each loaf.
And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.
6 Then you must set them in two rows, six in a row, on the table of pure gold before Yahweh.
And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.
7 You must put pure incense along each row of loaves as a representative offering. This incense will be burnt for Yahweh.
And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
8 Every Sabbath day the high priest must regularly set out the bread before Yahweh on behalf of the people of Israel, as a sign of an everlasting covenant.
Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.
9 This offering will be for Aaron and his sons, and they are to eat it in a place that is holy, for it is a portion from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire.”
And it will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to take it for food in a holy place: it is the most holy of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord, a rule for ever.
10 Now it happened that the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went among the people of Israel. This son of the Israelite woman fought against an Israelite man in the camp.
And a son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel and had a fight with a man of Israel by the tents;
11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the name of Yahweh and cursed God, so the people brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan.
And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
12 They held him in custody until Yahweh himself should declare his will to them.
And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord.
13 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
And the Lord said to Moses,
14 “Take the man who has cursed God outside the camp. All who heard him must lay their hands on his head, and then the entire assembly must stone him.
Take the curser outside the tent-circle; and let all in whose hearing the words were said put their hands on his head, and let him be stoned by all the people.
15 You must explain to the people of Israel and say, 'Whoever curses his God must carry his own guilt.
And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.
16 He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh must surely be put to death. All the assembly must certainly stone him, whether he is a foreigner or a native-born Israelite. If anyone blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he must be put to death.
And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.
17 If anyone strikes down another human being, he must certainly be put to death.
And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.
18 If anyone strikes down someone's animal, he must pay it back, life for life.
And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.
19 If anyone injures his neighbor, it must be done to him as he did to his neighbor:
And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him;
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has caused an injury to a person, so must it also be done to him.
Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.
21 Anyone who kills an animal must pay it back, and anyone who kills a person must be put to death.
He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.
22 You must have the same law for both the foreigner and the native-born Israelite, for I am Yahweh your God.'”
You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.
23 So Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and the people brought the man outside the camp, the one who had cursed Yahweh. They stoned him with stones. The people of Israel carried out the command of Yahweh to Moses.
And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, and they took the man who had been cursing outside the tent-circle and had him stoned. The children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
