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Leviticus Chapter 24

The oil and showbread

24:1 And the LORD spake to Moses, saying,
24:2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring to ya’ll pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
24:3 Wiyout the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening to the morning before the LORD continually [it shall be] a statute for ever in your generations.
24:4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
24:5 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
24:6 And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
24:7 And you shall put pure frankincense upon [each] row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, [even] an offering made by fire to the LORD.
24:8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
24:9 And 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 offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
24:10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father [was] an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel and this son of the Israelitish [woman] and a man of Israel strove together in the camp ;
24:11 And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name [of the LORD], and cursed. And they brought him to Moses(and his mother’s name [was] Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan)
24:12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shown them.
24:13 And the LORD spake to Moses, saying,
24:14 Bring forth him that has cursed without the camp ; and let all that heard [him] lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
24:15 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Who ever curses his God shall bear his sin.
24:16 And he that blasphems the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, [and] all the congregation shall certainly stone him as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name [of the LORD ], shall be put to death.

Life for a life


24:17 And he that kills any man shall surely be put to death.
24:18 And he that kills a beast shall make it good ; beast for beast.
24:19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour ; as he has done, so shall it be done to him;

Eye for an eye


24:20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth as he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him [again].
24:21 And he that kills a beast, he shall restore it and he that kills a man, he shall be put to death.
24:22 ya’ll shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country for I [am] the LORD your God.

Punishment for blasphemy


24:23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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