| | 1 | The LORD said to Moses, | |
| | 2 | "Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually. | |
| | 3 | Outside the curtain of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. | |
| | 4 | The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually. | |
| | 5 | "Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf. | |
| | 6 | Set them in two rows, six in each row, on the table of pure gold before the LORD. | |
| | 7 | Along each row put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be an offering made to the LORD by fire. | |
| | 8 | This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. | |
| | 9 | It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy part of their regular share of the offerings made to the LORD by fire." | |
| | 10 | 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. | |
| | 11 | The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.) | |
| | 12 | They put him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them. | |
| | 13 | Then the LORD said to Moses: | |
| | 14 | "Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him. | |
| | 15 | Say to the Israelites: 'If anyone curses his God, he will be held responsible; | |
| | 16 | anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death. | |
| | 17 | "'If anyone takes the life of a human being, he must be put to death. | |
| | 18 | Anyone who takes the life of someone's animal must make restitution--life for life. | |
| | 19 | If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: | |
| | 20 | fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured. | |
| | 21 | Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death. | |
| | 22 | You are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.'" | |
| | 23 | Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses. | |
