Leviticus 24

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1. 1The LORD spoke to Moses and said,
2. 2"Tell the Israelites to bring you pure, pressed olive oil to keep the lamps burning at all times.
3. 3Outside the curtain of the testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall tend the lamps from evening until morning before the LORD continually. This is a permanent statute for all your generations.
4. 4He must always keep the lamps on the pure gold lampstand burning before the LORD.
5. 5"Take fine flour and bake 12 loaves from it, using 2 tenths of an ephah of flour for each loaf.
6. 6Arrange them in 2 rows of 6 on the pure gold table before the LORD.
7. 7Place pure frankincense upon each row, so it will be on the bread as a memorial, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
8. 8Every Sabbath, he shall arrange it before the LORD continually, as taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
9. 9The bread belongs to Aaron and his sons. They must eat it in a holy place, because it is the most holy portion of the offerings made by fire to the LORD. This is a permanent law."
10. 10The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel. This son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel came into conflict with each other in the camp.
11. 11During the fight, the son of the Israelite woman cursed and blasphemed the name of the LORD. So the people brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan.)
12. 12They held him in custody so that the mind of the LORD might be revealed to them.
13. 13Then the LORD spoke to Moses and said,
14. 14"Take the man who cursed outside the camp. Everyone who heard him must place their hands on his head, and then the entire community must stone him.
15. 15Tell the Israelites: 'Anyone who curses his God must bear the consequences of his sin.
16. 16Anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire community must stone him. It doesn't matter whether he's a foreigner or a native-born Israelite — whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must die.
17. 17"'Anyone who kills another person must be put to death.
18. 18Anyone who kills a beast must make it good; beast for beast.
19. 19If someone injures a neighbor, the same must be done to him in return:
20. 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he caused, the same must be done to him.
21. 21Whoever kills an animal must replace it, but whoever kills a person must be put to death.
22. 22The same law applies to foreigners and native-born Israelites alike, because I am the LORD your God.'"
23. 23Moses told the Israelites what the LORD had said. They took the man who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him to death. The Israelites carried out exactly what the LORD had commanded Moses.