Old Testament · Law

Leviticus chapter 24

spoke to Moses and said,“Command the Israelites to bring you for the lamp, so that a flame can be kept burning .Outside , in the , Aaron will tend it from evening until morning in Yahweh’s presence — constantly. This is a for all your generations to come.He will arrange the lamps on the in Yahweh’s presence — constantly.“You are to take and bake from it — each loaf made with of flour.Then arrange them in two rows — six in each row — on in Yahweh’s presence.Place alongside each row — it will serve as a for the bread, a to Yahweh.Every , without fail, Aaron will arrange the bread in Yahweh’s presence — an ongoing commitment from the Israelites, a .It belongs to Aaron and his sons, and they will eat it in , because it is out of Yahweh’s fire offerings. This is a permanent right.Now, the son of — his father was an Egyptian man — went out among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between this man and .The son of the Israelite woman and . So they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was , daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan.)They , waiting for Yahweh to make his clear.Then Yahweh spoke to Moses:“Bring the one who cursed . Everyone who heard him must , and then the entire community will .“Say to the Israelites: Anyone who will .And anyone who must be put to death — the entire community will stone them. Whether they are an or a native-born Israelite, when they speak the Name with contempt, they must be put to death.“If anyone , they must be put to death.Anyone who kills someone’s animal must — .If anyone — whatever they did will be done to them:. Whatever injury they inflicted on the other person will be inflicted on them.Anyone who kills an animal must , but anyone who kills a human being must be put to death.You will have for and native-born alike. .”Moses told this to the Israelites, and they brought the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites Moses.