1 A nd the Lord said to Moses,

2 C ommand the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil from beaten olives for the light to cause a lamp to burn continually.

3 O utside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

4 H e shall keep the lamps in order upon the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord continually.

5 A nd you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

6 A nd you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the table of pure gold before the Lord.

7 Y ou shall put pure frankincense beside each row, that it may be with the bread as a memorial portion, an offering to be made by fire to the Lord.

8 E very Sabbath day Aaron shall set the showbread in order before the Lord continually; it is on behalf of the Israelites, an everlasting covenant.

9 A nd the bread shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a sacred place, for it is for a most holy portion of the offerings to the Lord made by fire, a perpetual due.

10 N ow the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the Israelites, and he and a man of Israel quarreled and strove together in the camp.

11 T he Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name and cursed. They brought him to Moses—his mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

12 A nd they put him in custody until the will of the Lord might be declared to them.

13 A nd the Lord said to Moses,

14 B ring him who has cursed out of the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head; then let all the congregation stone him.

15 A nd you shall say to the Israelites, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

16 A nd he who blasphemes the Name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him; the stranger as well as he who was born in the land shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.

17 A nd he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.

18 A nd he who kills a beast shall make it good, beast for beast.

19 A nd if a man causes a blemish or disfigurement on his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:

20 F racture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish or disfigurement on a man, so shall it be done to him.

21 H e who kills a beast shall replace it; he who kills a man shall be put to death.

22 Y ou shall have the same law for the sojourner among you as for one of your own nationality, for I am the Lord your God.

23 M oses spoke to the Israelites, and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp and stoned him with stones. Thus the Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses.