1    2   The Lord spoke to Moses and said: Command the Israelites to take pure oil of pounded olives ready for the regular mounting of the lamp outside the Veil of the Tokens in the Tent of the Presence. 3   Aaron

The law of holiness shall keep the lamp in trim regularly from dusk to dawn before the Lord: this is a rule binding on your descendants for all time. 4   The lamps on the lamp-stand, ritually clean, shall be regularly kept in trim by him before the Lord.

5   You shall take flour and bake it into twelve loaves, two tenths of an ephah to each. 6   You shall arrange them in two rows, six to a row on the table, ritually clean, before the Lord. 7   You shall sprinkle pure frankincense on the rows, ^note and this shall be a token of the bread, offered to the Lord as a food-offering. 8   Sabbath after sabbath he shall arrange it regularly before the Lord as a gift from the Israelites. This is a covenant for ever; 9   it is the privilege of Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat the bread in a holy place, because it is the holiest of holy-gifts. It is his due out of the food-offerings of the Lord for all time.

10    11   Now there was in the Israelite camp a man whose mother was an Israelite and his father an Egyptian; his mother's name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan; and he went out and became involved in a brawl with an Israelite of pure descent. He uttered the Holy Name in blasphemy, so they brought him to Moses; 12   and they kept him in custody until the Lord's will should be clearly made known to them.

13    14   The Lord spoke to Moses and said, Take the man who blasphemed out of the camp. Everyone who heard him shall put a hand ^note on his head, and then all the community shall stone him to death. 15   You shall say to the Israelites: When any man whatever blasphemes his God, he shall accept responsibility for his sin. 16   Whoever utters the Name of the Lord shall be put to death: all the community shall stone him; alien or native, if he utters the Name, he shall be put to death.

17   When one man strikes another and kills him, he shall be put to death. 18   Whoever strikes a beast and kills it shall make restitution, life for life. 19   When one man injures and disfigures his fellow-countryman, it shall be done to him as he has done; 20   fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury and disfigurement that he has inflicted upon another shall in turn be inflicted upon him.

21   Whoever strikes a beast and kills it shall make restitution, but whoever strikes a man and kills him shall be put to death. 22   You shall have one penalty for alien and native alike. For I am the Lord your God.

23   Thus did Moses speak to the Israelites, and they took the man who blasphemed out of the camp and stoned him to death. The Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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