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New Testament
Leviticus 24
The Holy Oil
241The Lord spoke to Moses:
2Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil from beaten[] olives for the Light so the lamps will be kept burning continually.[] 3Aaron shall set the Light before the Lord in the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is in front of the Testimony, every night from the evening to the morning. It is a permanent regulation throughout your generations. 4He shall set the lamps regularly on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.
The Holy Bread
5You shall take fine flour and bake twelve round loaves from it. Each loaf shall be made with four quarts of flour. 6You shall put them in two stacks, six to each stack, on the pure gold table before the Lord. 7Upon the stacks you shall place clear frankincense as a memorial portion for the bread. It is a gift of food[] to the Lord. 8On every Sabbath day he shall arrange it before the Lord regularly. It is a permanent covenant on behalf of the Israelites. 9The bread shall belong to Aaron and his sons, who shall eat it in a holy place, for it belongs to him as a most holy thing from the gifts of food to the Lord, a perpetual allotment.
Blasphemy Against the Holy Name
10A man who was the son of an Israelite woman and of an Egyptian man came along with the Israelites. This son of the Israelite woman fought with another Israelite in the camp. 11The Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name[] and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, belonging to the tribe of Dan.) 12They put him in custody to wait for a decision from the mouth of the Lord.
13Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 14“Take the man who cursed outside the camp, and all those who heard it shall lay their hands on his head, and the whole community shall stone him. 15Then speak to the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he shall bear his sin, 16but if anyone blasphemes the name of the Lord, he must certainly be put to death; the whole community must stone him. Whether he is an alien or a citizen, when he has blasphemed the Name, he must be put to death.”
Principles of Punishment
17“If anyone hits someone and kills him, he must certainly be put to death. 18But one who strikes and kills an animal must make restitution for it, a life for a life. 19If anyone injures his fellow citizen, he shall have the same thing done to him as he has done: 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he injured that other person, the same is to be done to him. 21One who strikes an animal so that it dies shall make restitution for it, but one who strikes a human being and kills him shall be put to death. 22You shall have the same standard of justice for the alien who lives with you and for the citizen, for I am the Lord your God.”
23After Moses had spoken this to the Israelites, the man who had cursed was taken outside the camp and stoned to death. The Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Footnotes
- 24:2 The basic meaning of the Hebrew verb ktt is “beat.” The translation assumes that oil from beaten olives is the highest grade “extra virgin” olive oil from the first crushing or pressing of the olive, done by hand.
- 24:2 Continually here seems to mean all through the night, every night, as the next verse says, or it may mean that one lamp was always kept burning night and day.
- 24:7 Elsewhere this word is translated an offering made by fire, a meaning that does not seem to fit the context here.
- 24:11 The Name refers to the Tetragrammaton, Yahweh, which was usually written and pronounced as Lord (Adonai). Even today Jews often substitute the Name for Lord when they are speaking about God.