CHAPTER 24
“Command
the Israelites
to bring
you
clear
oil
from pressed
olives
for the light,
that the lamp
may be kept burning
continually.
Outside
the veil
of the testimony
in the Tent
of Meeting,
Aaron
is to tend
it
continually
before
the LORD
from evening
until
morning.
This is a permanent
statute
for the generations to come.
You are also to take
fine flour
and bake
twelve
loaves,
using
two-tenths of an ephah
for each
loaf,
And you are to place
pure
frankincense
near
each row,
so that it may serve
as a memorial portion
for the bread,
an offering made by fire
to the LORD.
Every Sabbath day
the bread is to be set out
before
the LORD
on behalf of the Israelites
as a perpetual
covenant.
It belongs to
Aaron
and his sons,
who are to eat
it in a holy
place;
for
it is
to him
a most
holy part
of the offerings made by fire
to the LORD—
his portion
forever.”
Now the son
of an Israelite
mother
and an Egyptian
father
went out
among
the Israelites,
and a fight broke out
in the camp
between him
and an Israelite.
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.)
“Bring
the one who has cursed
outside
the camp,
and have all
who heard
him lay
their hands
on
his head;
then have the whole
assembly
stone
him.
And you are to tell
the Israelites,
‘If
anyone
curses
his God,
he shall bear the consequences
of his sin.
Whoever blasphemes
the name
of the LORD
must to be put to death;
the whole
assembly
surely must stone
him,
whether he is a foreign resident
or native;
if he blasphemes
the Name,
he must be put to death.
fracture
for
fracture,
eye
for
eye,
tooth
for
tooth.
Just as
he injured
the other person,
the same
must be inflicted
on him.
You are to have
the same
standard of law
for the foreign resident
and the native;
for
I
am the LORD
your God.’”
Then Moses
spoke
to
the Israelites,
and they took
the one who had cursed
outside
the camp
and stoned
him.
So the Israelites
did
as
the LORD
had commanded
Moses.