Leviticus 24
Modern English Version
The Tabernacle Lamps(A)
24 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the lamp, to cause the lamps to burn continually. 3 Outside the veil of the sanctuary, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it continually, from the evening until the morning before the Lord. It shall be a perpetual statute in your generations. 4 He shall arrange the lamps continually on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.
The Bread of the Tabernacle
5 You shall take wheat flour and bake twelve cakes. Two-tenths of an ephah[a] shall be in each cake. 6 You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord. 7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, so that it may be on the bread for a memorial, a food offering made by fire to the Lord. 8 Every Sabbath he shall set it in order continually before the Lord, with the portion taken from the children of Israel by a perpetual covenant. 9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it is most holy to him of the food offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute.
The Punishment for Blasphemy
10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel, and this son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel fought together in the camp. 11 And the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.) 12 And they put him in custody, so that the words of the Lord might be shown to them.
13 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 14 Bring outside the camp him who has cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let the entire congregation stone him. 15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. 16 Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and the entire congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native in the land, when he blasphemes the name, then he shall be put to death.
17 Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death. 18 Whoever kills an animal shall make restitution, animal for animal. 19 If anyone causes injury to his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him, 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused an injury to another, so shall it be done to him. 21 Whoever kills an animal shall make restitution. And whoever kills a man shall be put to death. 22 You shall have one manner of law for the foreigner as for the native, for I am the Lord your God.
23 So Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought outside the camp him who had cursed, and stoned him. And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.
Footnotes
- Leviticus 24:5 Likely about 7 pounds, or 3.2 kilograms.
Leviticus 24
Lexham English Bible
The Sanctuary’s Lamp and Bread
24 Then[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the Israelites[b] that[c] they should bring pure olive oil from beaten olives for the light to present[d] a lamp continually. 3 Aaron shall arrange for it outside[e] the curtain of the testimony in the tent of assembly from evening until morning before[f] Yahweh continually; it shall be a lasting statute[g] throughout your generations. 4 On the pure golden[h] lampstand he shall arrange for the lamps before[i] Yahweh 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 gold[j] table before[k] Yahweh. 7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each[l] row so that[m] it shall be for the bread as a memorial offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh. 8 On every Sabbath[n] he shall arrange it in rows before[o] Yahweh continually; they are from the Israelites[p] as an everlasting[q] covenant. 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 thing[r] for him from Yahweh’s offerings made by fire—a lasting rule.”[s]
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;[t] and the Israelite woman’s son and an[u] Israelite man fought in the camp. 11 Then[v] the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the name, and he cursed, so[w] they brought him to Moses—and the name of his mother was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 12 Then[x] they put him in custody so that[y] the matter might be made clear to them in accordance with the mouth of Yahweh.
13 Then[z] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 14 “Bring the curser outside the camp,[aa] 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,[ab] saying, ‘Any man[ac] when he curses his God shall bear[ad] his 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 kills[ae] a domestic animal must repay for it life in place of life. 19 And when a man causes[af] a physical defect in his fellow citizen according to[ag] what 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 to[ah] the physical defect he causes[ai] to the person, likewise it shall be caused[aj] to 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 have[ak] one norm; as for the alien, so[al] it must be for the native, because I am Yahweh your God.’”
23 Thus[am] Moses spoke to the Israelites,[an] and they brought the curser outside the camp,[ao] and they stoned him with stones, and the Israelites[ap] did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
Footnotes
- Leviticus 24:1 Or “And”
- Leviticus 24:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Leviticus 24:2 Or “and”
- Leviticus 24:2 Literally “to cause raising up”; or “set up” (HALOT 830 s.v. 4.d)
- Leviticus 24:3 Literally “from the outside of to”
- Leviticus 24:3 Literally “to the faces of”
- Leviticus 24:3 Literally “a statute of eternity” or “a statute of long duration”
- Leviticus 24:4 Supplied by context and the description of the lampstand in Exod 25:31
- Leviticus 24:4 Literally “to the faces of”
- Leviticus 24:6 Supplied by context and the description of the table in Exod 25:24
- Leviticus 24:6 Literally “to the faces of”
- Leviticus 24:7 Hebrew “the”
- Leviticus 24:7 Or “and”
- Leviticus 24:8 Literally “On the day of the Sabbath on the day of the Sabbath”
- Leviticus 24:8 Literally “to the faces of”
- Leviticus 24:8 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Leviticus 24:8 Or “eternal” or “enduring” or “perpetual”
- Leviticus 24:9 Literally “a holy thing of holy things”
- Leviticus 24:9 Literally “rule of eternity” or “rule of long duration”
- Leviticus 24:10 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Leviticus 24:10 Hebrew “the”
- Leviticus 24:11 Or “And”
- Leviticus 24:11 Or “and”
- Leviticus 24:12 Or “And”
- Leviticus 24:12 Literally “to”
- Leviticus 24:13 Or “And”
- Leviticus 24:14 Literally “to from an outside place of the camp”
- Leviticus 24:15 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Leviticus 24:15 Literally “A man a man”
- Leviticus 24:15 Or “and he shall bear”
- Leviticus 24:18 Literally “he who kills the soul of” or “he who kills the life of”
- Leviticus 24:19 Literally “gives”
- Leviticus 24:19 Literally “as that”
- Leviticus 24:20 Literally “as that”
- Leviticus 24:20 Literally “gives”
- Leviticus 24:20 Literally “given”
- Leviticus 24:22 Literally “it shall be for you”
- Leviticus 24:22 Hebrew “as”
- Leviticus 24:23 Or “And”
- Leviticus 24:23 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Leviticus 24:23 Literally “to from an outside place of the camp”
- Leviticus 24:23 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
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