1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Command the children of Israel, that
they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for
the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in
the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it
in order from evening to morning before
the LORD continually. It shall be a statute
forever throughout your generations.
4 He shall keep in order the lamps on
the pure gold lamp stand before the LORD
continually.
5 “You shall take fine flour, and bake
twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah†
shall be in one cake.
6 You shall set them in two rows, six on
a row, on the pure gold table before the
LORD.
7 You shall put pure frankincense on
each row, that it may be to the bread for a
memorial, even an offering made by fire to
the LORD.
8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in
order before the LORD continually. It is an
everlasting covenant on the behalf of the
children of Israel.
9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons. They
shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy
to him of the offerings of the LORD made
by fire by a perpetual statute.”
10 The 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.
11 The 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.
12 They put him in custody until the
LORD’s will should be declared to them.
13 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
14 “Bring 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.
15 You shall speak to the children of Israel,
saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall
bear his sin.
16 He who blasphemes the LORD’s name,
he 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.
18 He who strikes an animal mortally
shall make it good, life for life.
19 If anyone injures his neighbor, it shall
be done to him as he has done:
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth
for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has
injured someone.
21 He who kills an animal shall make it
good; and he who kills a man shall be put
to death.
22 You shall have one kind of law for the
foreigner as well as the native-born; for I
am the LORD your God.’ ”
23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel;
and they brought him who had cursed out
of the camp, and stoned him with stones.
The children of Israel did as the LORD
commanded Moses.
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