Leviticus 24

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1 The LORD said to Moses,	1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 "Order the Israelites to bring you clear oil of crushed olives for the light, so that you may keep lamps burning regularly.	2 Instruct the sons of Israel, so that they may bring to you clear oil from the purest olives, in order to supply the lamps continuously
3 In the meeting tent, outside the veil that hangs in front of the commandments, Aaron shall set up the lamps to burn before the LORD regularly, from evening till morning. Thus, by a perpetual statute for you and your descendants,	3 outside the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the covenant. And Aaron shall place these, from evening until morning, before the Lord, as a perpetual worship and ritual in your generations.
4 the lamps shall be set up on the pure gold lampstand, to burn regularly before the LORD.	4 They shall be placed upon the most pure candlestick in the sight of the Lord always.
5 "You shall take fine flour and bake it into twelve cakes, using two tenths of an ephah of flour for each cake.	5 You shall also receive fine wheat flour, and you shall bake twelve loaves from it, each loaf of which shall have two-tenths.
6 These you shall place in two piles, six in each pile, on the pure gold table before the LORD.	6 And you shall arrange them, six on each side, upon the most pure table before the Lord.
7 On each pile put some pure frankincense, which shall serve as an oblation to the LORD, a token offering for the bread.	7 And you shall place upon them the clearest frankincense, so that the bread may be a memorial of oblation for the Lord.
8 Regularly on each sabbath day this bread shall be set out afresh before the LORD, offered on the part of the Israelites by an everlasting agreement.	8 On each Sabbath, they shall be changed before the Lord, having been received from the sons of Israel as an everlasting covenant.
9 It shall belong to Aaron and his sons, who must eat it in a sacred place, since, as something most sacred among the various oblations to the LORD, it is his by perpetual right."	9 And they shall be for Aaron and his sons, so that they may eat these in the holy place; for it is the Holy of holies from the sacrifices of the Lord, as a perpetual right.
10 Among the Israelites there was a man born of an Israelite mother (Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan) and an Egyptian father.	10 Then, behold, the son of an Israelite woman, whom she had born of an Egyptian man among the sons of Israel, going out, was quarreling in the camp with a man of Israel.
11 This man quarreled publicly with another Israelite and cursed and blasphemed the LORD'S name. So the people brought him to Moses,	11 And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was led to Moses. (Now his mother was called Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri from the tribe of Dan.)
12 who kept him in custody till a decision from the LORD should settle the case for them.	12 And they sent him to prison, until they might know what the Lord would command,
13 The LORD then said to Moses,	13 who spoke to Moses,
14 "Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and when all who heard him have laid their hands on his head, let the whole community stone him.	14 saying: Lead away the blasphemer beyond the camp, and let all who heard him place their hands upon his head, and let the entire people stone him.
15 Tell the Israelites: Anyone who curses his God shall bear the penalty of his sin;	15 And you shall say to the sons of Israel: The man who curses his God shall bear his sin,
16 whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death. The whole community shall stone him; alien and native alike must be put to death for blaspheming the LORD'S name.	16 and whoever will have blasphemed the name of the Lord shall be put to death. The entire multitude shall overwhelm him with stones, whether he be a citizen or a sojourner. Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death.
17 "Whoever takes the life of any human being shall be put to death;	17 Whoever will have struck and killed a man shall be put to death.
18 whoever takes the life of an animal shall make restitution of another animal. A life for a life!	18 Whoever will have struck down an animal shall repay its equivalent, that is, a life for a life.
19 Anyone who inflicts an injury on his neighbor shall receive the same in return.	19 Whoever will have inflicted a blemish on any of his citizens, just as he has done, so shall it be done to him:
20 Limb for limb, eye for eye, tooth for tooth! The same injury that a man gives another shall be inflicted on him in return.	20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, shall he repay. Whatever degree of blemish he has inflicted, so shall he be compelled to suffer.
21 Whoever slays an animal shall make restitution, but whoever slays a man shall be put to death.	21 Whoever strikes down a beast, shall repay another. Whoever strikes a man shall be punished.
22 You shall have but one rule, for alien and native alike. I, the LORD, am your God."	22 Let there be equal judgment among you, whether it is a sojourner or a citizen who will have sinned. For I am the Lord your God.
23 When Moses told this to the Israelites, they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him; they carried out the command that the LORD had given Moses.	23 And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel. And they led away him who had blasphemed, beyond the camp, and they overwhelmed him with stones. And the sons of Israel did just as the Lord had instructed Moses.