Leviticus 24

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1 The LORD said to Moses,	1 The LORD said to Moses,
2 "Order the Israelites to bring you clear oil of crushed olives for the light, so that you may keep lamps burning regularly.	2 "Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning continually.
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 tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.
4 the lamps shall be set up on the pure gold lampstand, to burn regularly before the LORD.	4 He shall keep the lamps in order upon the lampstand of pure gold before the LORD continually.
5 "You shall take fine flour and bake it into twelve cakes, using two tenths of an ephah of flour for each cake.	5 "And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.
6 These you shall place in two piles, six in each pile, on the pure gold table before the LORD.	6 And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the table of pure gold.
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 put pure frankincense with each row, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion to be offered by fire to 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 Every sabbath day Aaron shall set it in order before the LORD continually on behalf of the people of Israel as a covenant for ever.
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 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 offerings by fire to the LORD, a perpetual due."
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 Now 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 quarreled in the camp,
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 the Israelite woman's son 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 who kept him in custody till a decision from the LORD should settle the case for them.	12 And they put him in custody, till the will of the LORD should be declared to them.
13 The LORD then said to Moses,	13 And the LORD said 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 "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
15 Tell the Israelites: Anyone who curses his God shall bear the penalty of his sin;	15 And say to the people of Israel, Whoever 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 He who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall 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.
17 "Whoever takes the life of any human being shall be put to death;	17 He who kills 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 He who kills a beast shall make it good, life for life.
19 Anyone who inflicts an injury on his neighbor shall receive the same in return.	19 When a man causes a disfigurement in his neighbor, as he has done it shall 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; as he has disfigured a man, he shall be disfigured.
21 Whoever slays an animal shall make restitution, but whoever slays a man shall be put to death.	21 He who kills a beast shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
22 You shall have but one rule, for alien and native alike. I, the LORD, am your God."	22 You shall have one law for the sojourner and for the native; 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 So Moses spoke to the people of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.