 1 The Lord spoke to Moses saying, 2 Command the children of Israel to bring to you pure olive oil, beaten, for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. 3 Aaron shall order it from evening until the morning before the Lord forever outside the veil of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation. This shall be a statute forever in your generations. 4 He shall order the lamps on the pure lampstand before the Lord forever. 5 You shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes of it. Two tenth parts shall be in one cake. 6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure 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 fire offering to the Lord. 8 Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord forever, from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. 9 It shall be Aaron's and his sons' and they shall eat it in the holy place, for it is most holy to him of the fire offerings of the Lord, by a never ending statute. 10 The son of a woman of Israel, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel. And this son of the woman of Israel and a man of Israel struggled together in the camp. 11 The son of the woman of Israel blasphemed the name of the Lord 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 under guard, so that the mind of the Lord might be declared to them. 13 The Lord spoke to Moses saying, 14 Bring forth the despiser outside the camp and let all who heard lay their hands on his head. Let all the congregation stone him. 15 You shall speak to the children of Israel saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. 16 Anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall surely stone them. And the stranger as well, even as one who is born in the land. When anyone blasphemes the name, they shall be put to death. 17 One who kills any man shall surely be put to death. 18 One who kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal. 19 If a man causes a blemish in his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him: 20 break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him. 21 One who kills an animal shall restore it. And one who kills a man shall be put to death. 22 One judgment shall be for you whether an alien or a native. For I am the Lord your God. 23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel to bring the despiser outside the camp and stone him with stones. The children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.
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