24:1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
24:2 “Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you clear oil from beaten olives for the ①light, to make a lamp ②burn continually.
▷ ①Or luminary ②Lit ascend
24:3 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 permanent statute throughout your generations.
24:4 He shall keep the lamps in order on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
24:5 “Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve ①cakes with it; ②two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.
▷ ①I.e., ring-shaped bread loaves ②About 0.13 cubic feet or 0.004 cubic meters
24:6 And you shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.
24:7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row so that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, an offering by fire to the LORD.
24:8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is an everlasting covenant ①for the sons of Israel.
▷ ①Lit from
24:9 And 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 LORD’S offerings by fire, his portion forever.”
24:10 Now the son of an Israelite woman—his father was an Egyptian—went out among the sons of Israel; and the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man had a fight within the camp.
24:11 And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
24:12 Then they put him in custody, waiting for Moses to give them a clear decision in accordance with the command of the LORD.
24:13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
24:14 “Bring the one who has cursed outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have all the congregation stone him.
24:15 You shall also speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone curses his God, then he will bear the responsibility for his sin.
24:16 Moreover, the one who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The stranger as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
24:17 ‘Now if someone ①takes any human life, he must be put to death.
▷ ①Lit strikes
24:18 But the one who ①takes the life of an animal shall make restitution, life for life.
▷ ①Lit strikes
24:19 If someone injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so shall it be done to him:
24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a person, so shall it be ①inflicted on him.
▷ ①Lit given
24:21 So the one who ①kills an animal shall make restitution, but the one who ②kills a person shall be put to death.
▷ ①Lit strikes down ②Lit strikes down
24:22 There shall be only one ①standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the LORD your God.’ ”
▷ ①Lit judgment
24:23 Then Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought the one who had cursed outside the camp, and stoned him with stones. So the sons of Israel did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.