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- 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.