Leviticus 24

1Yahweh spoke to Moses:

2“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamp may be kept burning continually.

3Outside the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to keep it in order before Yahweh from evening until morning, continually. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

4He is to keep the lamps in order on the pure lampstand before Yahweh continually.

5Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves with it, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.

6Set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure table before Yahweh.

7Put pure frankincense on each row, to be a memorial portion for the bread, a fire offering to Yahweh.

8Every Sabbath day he is to set it out before Yahweh continually, on behalf of the Israelites, as an everlasting covenant.

9It belongs to Aaron and his sons, and they are to eat it in a holy place, for it is a most holy portion for him from Yahweh’s fire offerings, a permanent share.”

10Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man.

11The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

12They put him in custody until the will of Yahweh should be made clear to them.

13Then Yahweh spoke to Moses:

14“Take the one who cursed outside the camp. All who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation is to stone him.

15Then say to the Israelites: Anyone who curses their God will bear their sin.

16Whoever blasphemes the name of Yahweh must be put to death; the whole congregation must stone that person. Foreigner or native-born, whoever blasphemes the Name must be put to death.

17Anyone who takes a human life must be put to death.

18Whoever takes an animal’s life must make restitution for it, life for life.

19If anyone injures their neighbor, what they have done must be done to them:

20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The injury they have inflicted on another person must be inflicted on them.

21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution for it, but whoever kills a human being must be put to death.

22You are to have one and the same rule for the foreigner and the native-born, for I am Yahweh your God.”

23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as Yahweh had commanded Moses.