Leviticus 24

¹The Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

²Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp , that a light may be kept burning regularly .

³Outside the veil of the testimony , in the tent of meeting , Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord regularly . It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations .

⁴He shall arrange the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord regularly .

⁵You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf .

⁶And you shall set them in two piles , six in a pile , on the table of pure gold before the Lord.

⁷And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile , that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord.

⁸Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly ; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever .

⁹And it shall be for Aaron and his sons , and they shall eat it in a holy place , since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord ’s food offerings , a perpetual due .

¹⁰Now an Israelite woman’s son , whose father was an Egyptian , went out among the people of Israel . And the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought in the camp ,

¹¹and the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name , and cursed . Then they brought him to Moses . His mother’s name was Shelomith , the daughter of Dibri , of the tribe of Dan .

¹²And they put him in custody , till the will of the Lord should be clear to them.

¹³Then the Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

¹⁴Bring out of the camp the one who cursed , and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head , and let all the congregation stone him.

¹⁵And speak to the people of Israel , saying , Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin .

¹⁶Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death . All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native , when he blasphemes the Name , shall be put to death .

¹⁷Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death .

¹⁸Whoever takes an animal’s life shall make it good , life for life .

¹⁹If anyone injures his neighbor , as he has done it shall be done to him,

²⁰fracture for fracture , eye for eye , tooth for tooth ; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.

²¹Whoever kills an animal shall make it good , and whoever kills a person shall be put to death .

²²You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native , for I am the Lord your God .

²³So Moses spoke to the people of Israel , and they brought out of the camp the one who had cursed and stoned him with stones . Thus the people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses .