Chapter 24
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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
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Command the sons of Israel, and they shall take to you pure olive oil beaten for the lampstand to cause a lamp to burn continually.
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Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening until morning before the LORD continually—a statute forever for your generations.
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On the pure menorah he shall arrange the lamps before the LORD continually.
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And you shall take a basket and bake them—twelve loaves, two tenths shall be one loaf.
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And you shall set them as two rows, six the row, on the pure table before the LORD.
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And you shall put pure frankincense on the arrangement, and it shall be for bread of remembrance, an offering to the LORD.
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Every Sabbath day, every Sabbath day, he shall arrange it before the LORD continually from the sons of Israel, a covenant of eternity.
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And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in the holy place, for it is most holy to him from the fire offerings of the LORD—a perpetual statute.
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And a son of an Israelite woman went out, and he was a son of an Egyptian man, in the midst of the sons of Israel; and they strove in the camp, the son of the Israelite woman and the Israelite man.
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And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed. And they brought him to Moses, and the name of his mother was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
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They placed him in custody until the LORD would declare to them his decision.
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And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying.
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Bring the blasphemer out to outside the camp, and let all the hearers lay their hands on his head, and let the entire congregation stone him.
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And to the sons of Israel you shall speak, saying: "A man, a man, if he curses his God, then he shall bear his sin."
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And one who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death. The whole congregation shall stone him, whether he is a sojourner or a citizen. When he blasphemes the name, he shall be put to death.
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And if a man strikes any soul of man to death, he shall be put to death.
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And one striking a vital life force of a beast shall make whole a vital life force in place of a vital life force.
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And if a man gives a defect in his fellow, as he did, so it shall be done to him.
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fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth—as one gives a defect in a person, so it shall be given in him.
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And one who strikes a beast shall make it whole, and one who strikes a man shall be put to death.
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One judgment shall be for you; as for the sojourner, so for the citizen shall be, for I am the LORD your God.
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And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought the blasphemer outside the camp, and they stoned him with stones, and the sons of Israel did as the LORD had commanded Moses.