Leviticus 24

Berean Standard Bible

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The Lord instructs Moses to command the Israelites to provide pure olive oil so Aaron can tend the lamps continually outside the veil in the Tent of Meeting. Aaron and his sons are also directed to bake twelve loaves of fine flour, arrange them in two rows on the pure gold table with frankincense every Sabbath, and eat the bread in a holy place. Later, during a fight in the camp, the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian father blasphemes the Name and is placed in custody until the Lord's will is clarified. The Lord tells Moses to take the blasphemer outside the camp where the whole assembly is to stone him, and establishes laws regarding capital punishment for blasphemy and murder, restitution for animal killing, and proportional injury for harming a neighbor. Finally, Moses speaks to the Israelites, who take the blasphemer outside the camp and stone him as the Lord commanded.

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¹Then 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 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. ⁵You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf, ⁶and 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.” ¹⁰Now 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 mother’s 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. ¹³Then the LORD said to Moses, ¹⁴“Take the blasphemer 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. 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. 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.

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