{"book":"Leviticus","slug":"leviticus","ch":24,"genre":"prose","sub":"Leviticus","prev":"leviticus/23","next":"leviticus/25","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"Then the LORD said to Moses,","f":[],"h":"The Oil for the Lamps","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"“ Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come.","f":["The Testimony refers to the stone tablets in the ark of the covenant inscribed with the Ten Commandments."],"style":"reg"},{"v":4,"t":"He shall tend the lamps on the pure [gold] lampstand before the LORD continually.","f":[]},{"v":5,"t":"You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,","f":["Two-tenths of an ephah is approximately 4 dry quarts or 4.4 liters (probably about 5.1 pounds or 2.3 kilograms of flour)."],"h":"The Showbread","style":"reg"},{"v":6,"t":"and set them in two rows — six per row — on the table of pure gold before the LORD.","f":[]},{"v":7,"t":"And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, a food offering to the LORD.","f":[]},{"v":8,"t":"Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":9,"t":"It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place; for it [is] to him a most holy [part] of the food offerings to the LORD — [his] portion forever.”","f":[]},{"v":10,"t":"Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp [between him] and an Israelite.","f":[],"h":"Punishment for Blasphemy","style":"reg"},{"v":11,"t":"The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)","f":[]},{"v":12,"t":"They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":13,"t":"Then the LORD said to Moses,","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":14,"t":"“ Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.","f":["Literally the one who cursed; also in verse 23"]},{"v":15,"t":"And you are to tell the Israelites,‘ If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":16,"t":"Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.","f":[]},{"v":17,"t":"And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.","f":[],"h":"An Eye for an Eye","style":"reg"},{"v":18,"t":"Whoever kills an animal must make restitution — life for life.","f":[]},{"v":19,"t":"If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:","f":[]},{"v":20,"t":"fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.","f":["Cited in Matthew 5:38"]},{"v":21,"t":"Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":22,"t":"You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”","f":[]},{"v":23,"t":"Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.","f":[],"style":"reg"}]}