1 The LORD said to Moses, |
2 "Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually. |
3 Outside the curtain of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. |
4 The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually. |
5 "Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf. |
6 Set them in two rows, six in each row, on the table of pure gold before the LORD. |
7 Along each row put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be an offering made to the LORD by fire. |
8 This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. |
9 It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy part of their regular share of the offerings made to the LORD by fire." |
10 Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite. |
11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.) |
12 They put him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them. |
13 Then the LORD said to Moses: |
14 "Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him. |
15 Say to the Israelites: 'If anyone curses his God, he will be held responsible; |
16 anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death. |
17 "'If anyone takes the life of a human being, he must be put to death. |
18 Anyone who takes the life of someone's animal must make restitution--life for life. |
19 If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: |
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured. |
21 Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death. |
22 You are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.'" |
23 Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses. |