- 1The 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.
- 3Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
- 4He 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 tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
- 6You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord.
- 7You 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.
- 8Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.
- 9It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and 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.”
- 10The 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.
- 11The 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.
- 12They put him in custody, until the Lord’s will should be declared to them.
- 13The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
- 14“Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
- 15You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
- 16He 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, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
- 17“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
- 18He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.
- 19If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:
- 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.
- 21He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
- 22You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am the Lord your God.’”
- 23Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought out him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.