Leviticus 24

Revised Geneva Translation

24 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

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

³ “Outside the Veil of the Testimony, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, shall Aaron tend them, from evening until morning, before the LORD always. This shall be a Law, forever, throughout your generations.

⁴ “He shall tend the lamps upon the pure Candlestick before the LORD, perpetually.

⁵ “Also, you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes from it. Two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.

⁶ “And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure Table before the LORD.

⁷ “You shall also put pure incense upon the rows, so that it may be on the Bread for a remembrance, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

⁸ “Every Sabbath he shall put them in rows before the LORD, forevermore, from the children of Israel, for an everlasting Covenant.

⁹ “And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. And they shall eat it in the Holy Place. For it is Most Holy to him of the offerings of the LORD, made by fire, by a perpetual Ordinance.”

¹⁰ And there went out among the children of Israel the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian. And this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp.

¹¹ So the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. Also, his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

¹² And they put him under guard until he told them the mind of the LORD.

¹³ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁴ “Bring the blasphemer outside the camp. And let all who heard him put their hands upon his head. And let all the Congregation stone him.

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

¹⁶ ‘And he who blasphemes the Name of the LORD shall be put to death. All the Congregation shall stone him to death, as well as the stranger, just as he who is born in the land. When he blasphemes the Name, let him be killed.

¹⁷ ‘Also, he who kills any man, he shall be put to death.

¹⁸ ‘And he who kills a beast, he shall restore it, beast for beast.

¹⁹ ‘Also, if a man causes a blemish in his neighbor, just as he has done so shall it be done to him.

²⁰ ‘Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Such a blemish as he has made in any, such shall be repaid to him.

²¹ ‘And he who kills a beast shall restore it. But he who kills a man shall be killed.

²² ‘You shall have one Law. It shall be the same for the stranger as for one born in the country, for I am the LORD your God.’”

²³ Then, Moses told the children of Israel. And they brought the blasphemer out of the camp and stoned him with stones. So, the children of Israel did as the LORD had commanded Moses.