The Bible

Leviticus Chapter 24

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²"Command the children of Israel to bring you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. ³Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. ⁴He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before Yahweh continually.

⁵"Take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah to be in one cake. ⁶Set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh. ⁷Put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread as a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh. ⁸Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel. ⁹It's for Aaron and his sons. They are to eat it in a holy place; for it is a most holy part of Yahweh's offerings made by fire by a perpetual statute."

¹⁰The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp. ¹¹The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ¹²They put him in custody until Yahweh's will should be declared to them. ¹³Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴"Take him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. ¹⁵Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. ¹⁶He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.

¹⁷"'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life. ¹⁹If anyone injures his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done: ²⁰fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone. ²¹He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death. ²²Have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.'"

²³Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they took him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.