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The Sanctuary's Lamp and Bread

¹ Then^[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ² "Command the Israelites^[b] that^[c] they should bring pure olive oil from beaten olives for the light to present^[d] a lamp continually. ³ Aaron shall arrange for it outside^[e] the curtain of the testimony in the tent of assembly from evening until morning before^[f] Yahweh continually; it shall be a lasting statute^[g] throughout your generations. ⁴ On the pure golden^[h] lampstand he shall arrange for the lamps before^[i] Yahweh continually.

⁵ "And you shall take finely milled flour, and you shall bake with it twelve ring-shaped bread cakes: each one shall be two-tenths of an ephah. ⁶ And you shall place them in two rows, six to the row, on the pure gold^[j] table before^[k] Yahweh. ⁷ And you shall put pure frankincense on each^[l] row so that^[m] it shall be for the bread as a memorial offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh. ⁸ On every Sabbath^[n] he shall arrange it in rows before^[o] Yahweh continually; they are from the Israelites^[p] as an everlasting^[q] covenant. ⁹ And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy thing^[r] for him from Yahweh's offerings made by fire—a lasting rule."^[s]

Punishment for Blasphemy

¹⁰ And an Israelite woman's son, and he was an Egyptian man's son, went out in the midst of the Israelites;^[t] and the Israelite woman's son and an^[u] Israelite man fought in the camp. ¹¹ Then^[v] the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the name, and he cursed, so^[w] they brought him to Moses—and the name of his mother was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ¹² Then^[x] they put him in custody so that^[y] the matter might be made clear to them in accordance with the mouth of Yahweh.

¹³ Then^[z] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴ "Bring the curser outside the camp,^[aa] and all the hearers shall place their hands on his head, and the whole community shall stone him. ¹⁵ And you shall speak to the Israelites,^[ab] saying, ‘Any man^[ac] when he curses his God shall bear^[ad] his sin. ¹⁶ And he who blasphemes Yahweh's name certainly shall be put to death; the whole community certainly shall stone him. As the alien, so the native shall be put to death at blaspheming his name.

¹⁷ "‘And when a man kills any human being, he certainly shall be put to death. ¹⁸ And he who kills^[ae] a domestic animal must repay for it life in place of life. ¹⁹ And when a man causes^[af] a physical defect in his fellow citizen according to^[ag] what he has done, so it shall be done to him: ²⁰ fracture in place of fracture, eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth—according to^[ah] the physical defect he causes^[ai] to the person, likewise it shall be caused^[aj] to him. ²¹ And a killer of a domestic animal must repay for it, and a killer of a human shall be put to death. ²² You must have^[ak] one norm; as for the alien, so^[al] it must be for the native, because I am Yahweh your God.'"

²³ Thus^[am] Moses spoke to the Israelites,^[an] and they brought the curser outside the camp,^[ao] and they stoned him with stones, and the Israelites^[ap] did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.