The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the people of Israel to
bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light
may be kept burning regularly. Outside the veil of the testimony,
in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to
morning before the LORD regularly. It shall be a statute forever
throughout your generations. He shall arrange the lamps on the
lampstand of pure gold before the LORD regularly.
“You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two
tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf. And you shall set them in
two piles, six in a pile, on the table of pure gold before the
LORD. And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may
go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the
LORD. Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the LORD
regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever.
And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a
holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the
LORD's food offerings, a perpetual due.”
Now an Israelite woman's son, whose father was an Egyptian, went
out among the people of Israel. And the Israelite woman's son and a
man of Israel fought in the camp, and the Israelite woman's son
blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they brought him to Moses.
His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the
tribe of Dan. And they put him in custody, till the will of the
LORD should be clear to them.
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Bring out of the camp the
one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his
head, and let all the congregation stone him. And speak to the
people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his
sin. Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to
death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well
as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death. Whoever
takes an animal's life shall make it good, life for life. If anyone
injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him,
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever
injury he has given a person shall be given to him. Whoever kills
an animal shall make it good, and whoever kills a person shall be
put to death. You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and
for the native, for I am the LORD your God.” So Moses spoke to the
people of Israel, and they brought out of the camp the one who had
cursed and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as
the LORD commanded Moses.
