Leviticus, 24

1. Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:

1. The LORD said to Moses,

2. 'Order the Israelites to bring you crushed-olive oil for the lamp-stand, and keep a flame burning there continually.

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. Aaron will keep it permanently in trim from evening to morning, outside the curtain of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh. This is a perpetual decree for 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. Aaron will keep the lamps permanently trimmed on the pure lamp-stand before Yahweh.

4. He shall keep the lamps in order upon the lampstand of pure gold before the LORD continually.

5. 'You will take wheaten flour and with it bake twelve loaves, each of two-tenths of an ephah.

5. "And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

6. You will then place them in two rows of six on the pure table before Yahweh

6. And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the table of pure gold.

7. and put pure incense on each row, to make it food offered as a memorial, food burnt for Yahweh.

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. Every Sabbath they will be arranged before Yahweh. The Israelites will provide them as a permanent covenant.

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. They will belong to Aaron and his sons, who will eat them inside the holy place since, for him, they are an especially holy part of the food burnt for Yahweh. This is a permanent law.'

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. There was a man whose mother was an Israelite woman and whose father was an Egyptian. He came out of his house and, in the camp, surrounded by the Israelites, he began to quarrel with a man who was an Israelite.

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. Now the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed it. He was then taken to Moses (his mother's name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan).

11. and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelo'mith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

12. He was then put under guard until Yahweh's will should be made clear to them.

12. And they put him in custody, till the will of the LORD should be declared to them.

13. Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:

13. And the LORD said to Moses,

14. 'Take the man who pronounced the curse outside the camp. All those who heard him must then lay their hands on his head, and the whole community must then 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. Then say to the Israelites: "Anyone who curses his God will bear the consequences of his sin,

15. And say to the people of Israel, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

16. and anyone who blasphemes the name of Yahweh will be put to death; the whole community will stone him; be he alien or native-born, if he blasphemes the Name, he will be put to death.

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. "Anyone who strikes down any other human being will be put to death.

17. He who kills a man shall be put to death.

18. "Anyone who strikes down an animal will make restitution for it: a life for a life.

18. He who kills a beast shall make it good, life for life.

19. "Anyone who injures a neighbour 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. broken limb for broken limb, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As the injury inflicted, so will be the injury suffered.

20. fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has disfigured a man, he shall be disfigured.

21. Whoever strikes down an animal will make restitution for it, and whoever strikes down a human being will 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. The sentence you pass will be the same, whether on native-born or on alien; for I am Yahweh your God." '

22. You shall have one law for the sojourner and for the native; for I am the LORD your God."

23. Moses having told the Israelites this, they took the man who had pronounced the curse out of the camp and stoned him. And so the Israelites carried out Yahweh's order to 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.