1 Y ahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2 “ Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

“Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.

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

Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of meeting, Aaron shall be in charge of it from evening until morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute forever in your generations.

4 H e shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before Yahweh continually.

He shall be in charge of the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord continually. The Bread of the Tabernacle

5 “ You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.

“And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

6 Y ou shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.

You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord.

7 Y ou shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

8 E very Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.

Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

9 I t shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute.”

And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, by a perpetual statute.” The Penalty for Blasphemy

10 T he son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp.

11 T he son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

And the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord and cursed; and so they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

12 T hey put him in custody, until Yahweh’s will should be declared to them.

Then they put him in custody, that the mind of the Lord might be shown to them.

13 Y ahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

14 “ Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

“Take outside the camp him who has cursed; then let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

15 Y ou shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

“Then you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

16 H e who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

And whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him, the stranger as well as him who is born in the land. When he blasphemes the name of the Lord, he shall be put to death.

17 “ ‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

‘Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.

18 H e who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal.

19 I f anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

‘If a man causes disfigurement of his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him—

20 f racture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused disfigurement of a man, so shall it be done to him.

21 H e who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

And whoever kills an animal shall restore it; but whoever kills a man shall be put to death.

22 Y ou shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’”

You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the Lord your God.’”

23 M oses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought out him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Then Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they took outside the camp him who had cursed, and stoned him with stones. So the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.