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Leviticus 24 – Verses from Leviticus 24 of the book of Leviticus of the Bible.
1 The Lord said to Moses:
2 “Command the Israelites to bring you pure beaten olive oil for the lamps, so that they will always burn.
3 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that hides the tablets of the covenant, Aaron will keep the lamps burning continually before the Lord, from evening until the next morning. This is a perpetual decree for your generations.
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4 Always keep the lamps in order on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.
5 “Take some of the best flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two jars for each loaf.
6 Place them in two rows, with six loaves in each, on the table of pure gold before the Lord.
7 Next to each row place a little pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and be an offering to the Lord prepared in the fire.
8 These loaves will be regularly placed before the Lord, each Sabbath, in the name of the Israelites, as a perpetual covenant.
9 They belong to Aaron and his descendants, who will eat them in a sacred place, because it is a most holy part of their regular portion of the offerings dedicated to the Lord, prepared in the fire. It is a perpetual decree.”
10 It happened that the son of an Israelite and an Egyptian went out and went among the Israelites. In the camp there was a fight between him and an Israelite.
11 The Israelite's son blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
12 They left him imprisoned until the Lord's will was declared to them.
13 Then the Lord said to Moses:
14 “Take what blasphemed out of the camp. All those who heard him will lay their hands on his head, and the entire community will stone him.
15 Tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will be responsible for his sin;
16 Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord will have to be executed. The whole community will stone him. Whether you are a foreigner or a native of the land, if you blaspheme the Name, you will have to be killed.
17 “If someone hurts a person to the point of killing them, they will have to be executed.
18 Whoever kills an animal will make restitution: life for life.
19 If anyone hurts his neighbor, leaving him defective, the same thing he did will be done to him:
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he hurt the other, leaving him defective, so he will also be hurt.
21 Whoever kills an animal will make restitution, but whoever kills a man will be killed.
22 You will have the same law for the foreigner and for the native. I am the Lord, your God.”
23 After Moses spoke to the Israelites, they took the blasphemer out of the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
