The Sanctuary’s Lamp and Bread

1 ThenYahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Command the Israelitesthatthey should bring pure olive oil from beaten olives for the light to presenta lamp continually.

3 Aaron shall arrange for it outsidethe curtain of the testimony in the tent of assembly from evening until morning beforeYahweh continually; it shall be a lasting statutethroughout your generations.

4 On the pure goldenlampstand he shall arrange for the lamps beforeYahweh continually.

5 “And you shall take finely milled flour, and you shall bake with it twelve ring-shaped bread cakes: each one shall be two-tenths of an ephah.

6 And you shall place them in two rows, six to the row, on the pure goldtable beforeYahweh.

7 And you shall put pure frankincense on eachrow so thatit shall be for the bread as a memorial offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh.

8 On every Sabbathhe shall arrange it in rows beforeYahweh continually; they are from the Israelitesas an everlastingcovenant.

9 And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy thingfor him from Yahweh’s offerings made by fire—a lasting rule.”

Punishment for Blasphemy

10 And an Israelite woman’s son, and he was an Egyptian man’s son, went out in the midst of the Israelites;and the Israelite woman’s son and anIsraelite man fought in the camp.

11 Thenthe Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the name, and he cursed, sothey brought him to Moses—and the name of his mother was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

12 Thenthey put him in custody so thatthe matter might be made clear to them in accordance with the mouth of Yahweh.

13 ThenYahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

14 “Bring the curser outside the camp,and all the hearers shall place their hands on his head, and the whole community shall stone him.

15 And you shall speak to the Israelites,saying, ‘Any manwhen he curses his God shall bearhis sin.

16 And he who blasphemes Yahweh’s name certainly shall be put to death; the whole community certainly shall stone him. As the alien, so the native shall be put to death at blaspheming his name.

17 “ ‘And when a man kills any human being, he certainly shall be put to death.

18 And he who killsa domestic animal must repay for it life in place of life.

19 And when a man causesa physical defect in his fellow citizen according towhat he has done, so it shall be done to him:

20 fracture in place of fracture, eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth—according tothe physical defect he causesto the person, likewise it shall be causedto him.

21 And a killer of a domestic animal must repay for it, and a killer of a human shall be put to death.

22 You must haveone norm; as for the alien, soit must be for the native, because I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

23 ThusMoses spoke to the Israelites,and they brought the curser outside the camp,and they stoned him with stones, and the Israelitesdid just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.