Leviticus 24
1 The LORD spoke to Moses:
2 “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the light, to keep a lamp burning continually.
3 Outside the curtain of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall tend it before the LORD from evening until morning, continually. This is a permanent rule throughout your generations.
4 On the pure lampstand he shall tend the lamps before the LORD continually.
5 You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves; each loaf shall be made from two-tenths of an ephah.
6 You shall set them in two rows, six in each row, on the pure table before the LORD.
7 On each row you shall place pure frankincense, to be a memorial portion for the bread, an offering by fire to the LORD.
8 Sabbath after Sabbath he shall arrange them before the LORD continually, on behalf of the Israelites: it is a permanent covenant.
9 They shall belong to Aaron and his sons, who shall eat them in a holy place, for they are most holy for him, from the LORD’s offerings by fire, as a permanent decree.”
10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, came out among the Israelites; and in the camp the son of the Israelite woman fought with an Israelite man.
11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
12 They put him under guard, so that the LORD’s decision might be made clear to them.
13 The LORD spoke to Moses:
14 “Take the one who cursed outside the camp. All who heard him shall lay their hands on his head, and the whole community shall stone him.
15 And you shall say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses his God shall bear his sin.
16 Whoever pronounces the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death; the whole community shall certainly stone him. Whether a resident foreigner or a native of the land, if he pronounces the Name, he shall be put to death.
17 Anyone who strikes and kills a person shall surely be put to death.
18 Anyone who strikes and kills an animal must make restitution for it: life for life.
19 If anyone causes an injury to his neighbor, what he has done shall be done to him.
20 Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he caused an injury to someone, so it shall be done to him.
21 Anyone who kills an animal must make restitution for it, and anyone who kills a person shall be put to death.
22 You shall have one rule: it shall apply both to the resident foreigner and to the native of the land, for I am the LORD your God.’”
23 Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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