Eternal Light and Bread

24 Then Adonai spoke to Moses saying: ² “Order Bnei-Yisrael to bring to you pure olive oil, beaten for the light, to keep a lamp burning continually. ³ Outside of the curtain of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to keep it in order from evening to morning before Adonai continually. It is to be a statute forever throughout your generations. ⁴ He is to keep the lamps in order on the pure gold menorah before Adonai continually.

⁵ “Also you are to take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it, with two tenths of an ephah in each cake. ⁶ Then you are to set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before Adonai. ⁷ Set pure frankincense on each row, as a memorial portion for the bread, an offering by fire to Adonai. ⁸ Every Yom Shabbat he is to set it in order before Adonai continually. It is an everlasting covenant on behalf of Bnei-Yisrael. ⁹ It belongs to Aaron and his sons, and they are to eat it in a holy place, for it is most holy to him among the offerings of Adonai by fire, as a perpetual statute.”

Justice and Restitution

¹⁰ Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among Bnei-Yisrael, and a fight broke out between the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man. ¹¹ The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name, and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ¹² They put him in custody, until the will of Adonai could be declared to them.

¹³ Then Adonai spoke to Moses, saying: ¹⁴ “Bring the one who cursed, out of the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and have the entire congregation stone him.

¹⁵ “Then you will speak to Bnei-Yisrael, saying: Whoever curses his God will bear his sin. ¹⁶ Whoever blasphemes the Name of Adonai must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must stone him. The outsider as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, is to be put to death.

¹⁷ “Whoever mortally strikes down any man must surely be put to death. ¹⁸ Whoever mortally strikes down an animal is to make restitution—life for life. ¹⁹ If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done, the same is to be done to him: ²⁰ fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.^[a] Just as he has injured someone, so it should it be done to him.

²¹ “Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution, but the one who kills a man is to be put to death. ²² You are to have one standard of justice for the outsider as well as the native-born, for I am Adonai your God.”

²³ So Moses spoke to Bnei-Yisrael, and they led the one who had cursed out of the camp, then stoned him with rocks. Thus Bnei-Yisrael did as Adonai commanded Moses.