Leviticus 24

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

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1The Lord said to Moses, “Tell the people of Israel

2to bring you pure olive oil for an eternal flame

3in the lampstand of pure gold which stands outside the veil that secludes the Holy of Holies. Each morning and evening Aaron shall supply it with fresh oil and trim the wicks.

4It will be an eternal flame before the Lord from generation to generation.

5“Every Sabbath day the High Priest shall place twelve loaves of bread in two rows upon the gold table that stands before the Lord.

6These loaves shall be baked from finely ground flour, using a fifth of a bushel for each.

7Pure frankincense shall be sprinkled along each row.

8This will be a memorial offering made by fire to the Lord, in memory of his everlasting covenant with the people of Israel.

9The bread shall be eaten by Aaron and his sons, in a place set apart for the purpose. For these are offerings made by fire to the Lord under a permanent law of God and are most holy.“

10Out in the camp one day, a young man whose mother was an Israelite and whose father was an Egyptian, got into a fight with one of the men of Israel.

11During the fight the Egyptian man's son cursed God, and was brought to Moses for judgment. (His mother's name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.)

12He was put in jail until the Lord would indicate what to do with him.

13And the Lord said to Moses, “Take him outside the camp and tell all who heard him

14to lay their hands upon his head; then all the people are to execute him by stoning.

15And tell the people of Israel that anyone who curses his God must pay the penalty:

16he must die. All the congregation shall stone him; this law applies to the foreigner as well as to the Israelite who blasphemes the name of Jehovah. He must die.

17“Also, all murderers must be executed.

18Anyone who kills an animal that isn't his shall replace it.

19The penalty for injuring anyone is to be injured in exactly the same way:

20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever anyone does to another shall be done to him.

21“To repeat, whoever kills an animal must replace it, and whoever kills a man must die.

22You shall have the same law for the foreigner as for the home-born citizen, for I am Jehovah your God.“

23So they took the youth out of the camp and stoned him until he died, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

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