Leviticus 24

¹Then the Lord

²“Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.

³Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of meeting, Aaron shall be in charge of it from evening until morning before the Lord

⁴He shall be in charge of the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord

⁵“And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

⁶You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord

⁷And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to the Lord

⁸Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord

⁹And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings of the Lord

¹⁰Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp.

¹¹And the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord

¹²Then they put him in custody, that the mind of the Lord

¹³And the Lord

¹⁴“Take outside the camp him who has cursed; then let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

¹⁵“Then you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

¹⁶And whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord

¹⁷‘Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.

¹⁸Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal.

¹⁹‘If a man causes disfigurement of his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him—

²⁰fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused disfigurement of a man, so shall it be done to him.

²¹And whoever kills an animal shall restore it; but whoever kills a man shall be put to death.

²²You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the Lord

²³Then Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they took outside the camp him who had cursed, and stoned him with stones. So the children of Israel did as the Lord