Leviticus 24

The Oil for the Lampsⓘ

Lamps and the bread of the Presence¹Then the Lord said to Moses, ²“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

³Outside the veil of the Testimony^a in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the Lord from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come. ⁴He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord continually.

The Showbreadⓘ

⁵You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,^{b 6}and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the Lord. ⁷And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, a food offering to the Lord.

⁸Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the Lord on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant. ⁹It 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 food offerings to the Lord—his portion forever.”

Punishment for Blasphemyⓘ

A man blasphemes the Name¹⁰Now 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. ¹¹The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His motherʼs name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

¹²They placed him in custody until the will of the Lord should be made clear to them.

Judgment and the law of equal justice¹³Then the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁴“Take the blasphemer^c outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

¹⁵And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin. ¹⁶Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

An Eye for an Eyeⓘ

¹⁷And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death. ¹⁸Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life. ¹⁹If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: ²⁰fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.^d Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.

²¹Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death. ²²You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the Lord your God.’”

²³Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses.