Leviticus 24

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:

² Order the sons of Israel to bring you pure olive oil for the lamp-stand, and keep a flame burning there continually.

³ Outside the veil of Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to see to this flame. It shall burn there before Yahweh from evening to morning continually. This is a perpetual law for your descendants:

⁴ Aaron is to see to the lamps on the pure lamp-stand before Yahweh, continually.

⁵ You are to take wheaten flour and with it bake twelve cobs, each of two-tenths of an ephah.

⁶ Then you must set them in two rows of six on the pure table that stands before Yahweh.

⁷ On each row you shall place pure incense. This will be the food offered as a memorial, a burnt offering for Yahweh.

⁸ Continually, every sabbath they shall be set before Yahweh. The sons of Israel are to provide them by unending covenant.

⁹ They will belong to Aaron and his sons, who shall eat them in a holy place, for they are a most holy portion for him of Yahweh’s burnt offerings. This is a perpetual law.’

¹⁰ There was a man whose mother was an Israelite woman and whose father was an Egyptian. He came out of his house and in the camp, surrounded by the sons of Israel, he began to quarrel with a man who was an Israelite.

¹¹ Now this son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the name and cursed it. So they brought him to Moses (his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan).

¹² He was put under guard until the will of Yahweh should be made clear to them.

¹³ Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:

¹⁴ Take the man who pronounced the curse outside the camp. Let all who have heard him lay their hands on his head, and let the whole community stone him.

¹⁵ Then say to the sons of Israel: “Any man who curses his God shall bear the burden of his fault.

¹⁶ The one who blasphemes the name of Yahweh must die; the whole community must stone him. Stranger or native, if he blasphemes the name, he dies.

¹⁷ If a man strikes down any human being, he must die.

¹⁸ If a man strikes an animal down he must make restitution for it: a life for a life.

¹⁹ “If a man injures his neighbour, what he has done must be done to him:

²⁰ broken limb for broken limb, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As the injury inflicted, so must be the injury suffered.

²¹ The one who strikes an animal down must make restitution for it, and the one who strikes down a man must die.

²² The sentence you pass shall be the same whether it be on native or on stranger; for I am Yahweh your God.”‘

²³ When Moses had said this to the sons of Israel, they took the man who had pronounced the curse out of the camp and stoned him. In this way the sons of Israel carried out the order of Yahweh to Moses.