Leviticus 24

New King James Version

Care of the Tabernacle Lamps^(A)

24 Then theLordspoke to Moses, saying:^2 (B)“Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.³ Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of meeting, Aaron shall be in charge of it from evening until morning before theLordcontinually;it shall bea statute forever in your generations.⁴ He shall^[a]be in charge of the lamps on^(C)the puregoldlampstand before theLordcontinually.

The Bread of the Tabernacle

⁵ “And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve^(D)cakes with it. Two-tenthsof an ephahshall be in each cake.⁶ You shall set them in two rows, six in a row,^(E)on the puregoldtable before theLord.⁷ And you shall put pure frankincense oneachrow, that it may be on the bread for a^(F)memorial, an offering made by fire to theLord.^8 (G)Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before theLordcontinually,being takenfrom the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.⁹ And^(H)it shall be for Aaron and his sons,^(I)and they shall eat it in a holy place; for itismost holy to him from the offerings of theLordmade by fire, by a perpetual statute.”

The Penalty for Blasphemy

¹⁰ Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose fatherwasan Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this Israelitewoman’sson and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp.¹¹ And the Israelite woman’s son^(J)blasphemed the nameof theLordand^(K)cursed; and so they^(L)brought him to Moses. (His mother’s namewasShelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)¹² Then they^(M)put him^[b]in custody,^(N)that^[c]the mind of theLordmight be shown to them.

¹³ And theLordspoke to Moses, saying,¹⁴ “Take outside the camp him who has cursed; then let all who heardhim^(O)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^(P)shall^[d]bear his sin.¹⁶ And whoever^(Q)blasphemes the name of theLordshall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him, the stranger as well as him who is born in the land. When he blasphemes the nameof theLord, he shall be put to death.

^17 (R)‘Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.^18 (S)Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal.

¹⁹ ‘If a man causes disfigurement of his neighbor, as^(T)he has done, so shall it be done to him—²⁰ fracture for^(U)fracture,^(V)eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused disfigurement of a man, so shall it be done to him.²¹ And whoever kills an animal shall restore it; but whoever kills a man shall be put to death.²² You shall have^(W)the^[e]same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for IamtheLordyour God.’ ”

²³ Then 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 theLordcommanded Moses.