Leviticus 24
1THE Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2Give orders to the children of Israel, and let them bring the oil, pure expressed oil for light, that a lamp may burn continually,
3without the veil, in the tabernacle of the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall keep it burning, from evening till morning, continually, before the Lord. It is an everlasting statute for your generations.
4You shall keep the lamps burning on the pure candlestick before the Lord, until the morning.
5And you shall take fine flour, and make it into twelve loaves, every loaf shall consist of two tenths;
6and you shall lay them in two piles, six loaves in each pile, on the pure table before the Lord.
7And on each pile you shall lay pure frankincense, and salt. They shall be set before the Lord for loaves of remembrance.
8On the day of the sabbaths they shall be set continually before the Lord, in the sight of the children of Israel, as an everlasting covenant;
9and they shall be for Aaron and his sons. And they shall eat them in a holy place; for they are most holy. This shall be their peculiar due, for ever, from those things sacrificed to the Lord.
10Now there had come out among the Israelites a son of an Israelitish woman, but his father was an Egyptian. And this son of the Israelitish woman, and a man who was an Israelite, quarrelled in the camp.
11And the son of the Israelitish woman having named the name [of God], cursed it. Upon which they brought him before Moses. Now his mother’s name was Salomith, she was a daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan.
12And when they had committed him to custody, to pass sentence on him by the decree of the Lord,
13the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
14Lead out him who cursed, without the camp, and all who heard shall lay their hands on his head, and all the congregation shall stone him.
15Then speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Be the man who he may who shall curse a god, he shall contract guilt;
16but let him who nameth the name of the Lord be put to death. Let the whole congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a proselyte, or born among them, when he nameth the name of the Lord, let him die.
17And whosoever smiteth another so that he die, let him be put to death.
18And whosoever shall smite a beast, so that it die, let him make compensation, beast for beast.
19And whosoever shall cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done to him, so shall it be done to himself;
20bruise for bruise; eye for eye; tooth for tooth; according to the blemish he hath given the man, so shall it be returned to him.
21Whosoever shall smite a man so that he die, let him be put to death,
22shall be one and the same decision for the proselyte, and for the neighbour; for I am the Lord your God.
23Thereupon Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth him who had cursed without the camp, and stoned him with stones. And when the children of Israel had done as the Lord commanded Moses,—