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Leviticus 24
Oil for the Lamp
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to keep a lamp burning continually. Outside the curtain of the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron will arrange it from evening until morning before the LORD continually. It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations. He will arrange the lamps on the pure lampstand before the LORD continually.
The Bread before the LORD
You will take fine flour and bake twelve cakes from it; each cake will be made from two-tenths of an ephah. You will arrange them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure table before the LORD. You will put pure frankincense on each row, and it will be with the bread as a memorial portion, an offering by fire to the LORD. Every Sabbath day Aaron will arrange it before the LORD continually on behalf of the Israelites, as a perpetual covenant. It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they will eat it in a holy place, for it is most holy to him from the LORD’s offerings by fire, a perpetual statute.
The Man Who Blasphemed the Name
The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian man, went out among the Israelites. The son of the Israelite woman and an Israelite man fought in the camp. The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name and cursed, and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan. They placed him in custody until the LORD’s decision should be made clear to them.
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Bring the one who cursed outside the camp. Everyone who heard him will lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation will stone him. Speak to the Israelites, saying: Anyone who curses his God will bear his sin. Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD will surely be put to death; the whole congregation will surely stone that person. The resident alien as well as the native-born will be put to death when blaspheming the Name.
Equal Justice for Native and Resident Alien
Whoever strikes down a human life will surely be put to death. Whoever strikes down an animal will make restitution for it, life for life. If someone causes an injury to a neighbor, as that person has done, so it will be done to that person: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As the person has caused injury to another, so will it be given to that person. Whoever strikes down an animal will make restitution for it, but whoever strikes down a human being will be put to death. You will have one ordinance for the resident alien and for the native-born, for I am the LORD your God.”
Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they brought the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses.