Leviticus 24
24
Caring for the lamps
(Exodus 27.20,21)
1The LORD told Moses 2to say to the community of Israel:
You must supply the purest olive oil for the lamps in the sacred tent, so they will keep burning. 3-4Aaron will set up the gold lampstand in the holy place of the sacred tent. Then he will light the seven lamps that must be kept burning there in my presence, every night from now on. This law will never change.
The sacred bread
The LORD said:
5Use your finest flour to bake twelve loaves of bread about two kilogrammes each,#Ex 25.30. 6then take them into the sacred tent and lay them on the gold table in two rows of six loaves. 7Beside each row put some pure incense that will be sent up by fire in place of the bread as an offering to me. 8Aaron must lay fresh loaves on the table each Sabbath, and priests in all generations must continue this practice as part of Israel's agreement with me. 9This bread will always belong to Aaron and his family; it is very holy because it was offered to me, and it must be eaten in a holy place.#24.9 holy place: The courtyard of the sacred tent (see 6.16,17).#Mt 12.4; Mk 2.26; Lk 6.4.
Punishment for cursing the LORD
10-11Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri from the tribe of Dan, had married an Egyptian, and they had a son. One day their son got into a fight with an Israelite man in camp and cursed the name of the LORD. So the young man was dragged off to Moses, 12who had him guarded while everyone waited for the LORD to tell them what to do.
13Finally, the LORD said to Moses:
14This man has cursed me! Take him outside the camp and make the witnesses lay their hands on his head. Then command the whole community of Israel to stone him to death. 15-16And warn the others that everyone else who curses me will die in the same way, whether they are Israelites by birth or foreigners living among you.
17Death is also the penalty for murder,#Ex 21.12. 18but the killing of an animal that belongs to someone else requires only that the animal be replaced. 19Personal injuries to others must be dealt with in keeping with the crime— 20a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, or a tooth for a tooth.#Ex 21.23-25; Dt 19.21; Mt 5.38. 21It's possible to pay the owner for an animal that has been killed, but death is the penalty for murder. 22I am the LORD your God, and I demand equal justice both for you Israelites and for those foreigners who live among you.#Nu 15.16.
23When Moses finished speaking, the people did what the LORD had told Moses, and they stoned to death the man who had cursed the LORD.
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Leviticus 24
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1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee the finest and clearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps continually,
3Without 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.
4They shall be set upon the most pure candlestick before the Lord continually.
5Thou shalt take also fine flour, and shalt bake twelve loaves thereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf.
6And thou shalt set them six and six, one against another, upon the most clean table before the Lord.
7And thou shalt put upon them the clearest frankincense, that the bread may be for a memorial of the oblation of the Lord.
8Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord: being received of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant:
9And 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.
10And, 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.
11And 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:)
12And they put him into prison, till they might know what the Lord would command.
13And the Lord spoke to Moses,
14Saying: 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.
15And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel. The man that curseth his God shall bear his sin:
16And 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.
17He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.
18He that killeth a beast shall make it good: that is to say, shall give beast for beast.
19He that giveth a blemish to any of his neighbours: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:
20Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, shall he restore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to suffer.
21He that striketh a beast shall render another. He that striketh a man shall be punished.
22Let there be equal judgment among you, whether he be a stranger, or a native that offends: because I am the Lord your God.
23And 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.
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