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The LORD said to Moses,

The Lord said to Moses,

"Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.

"Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.

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.

Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law 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.

The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually.

The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord must be tended continually.

"Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.

"Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.

Set them in two rows, six in each row, on the table of pure gold before the LORD .

Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the Lord .

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.

By each stack put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the Lord .

This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.

This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.

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." A Blasphemer Stoned

It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in the sanctuary area, because it is a most holy part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord ."

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.

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.

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.)

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.)

They put him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.

They put him in custody until the will of the Lord should be made clear to them.

Then the LORD said to Moses:

Then the Lord said to Moses:

"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.

"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.

Say to the Israelites: 'If anyone curses his God, he will be held responsible;

Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible;

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.

anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord is to be put to death. The entire assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme the Name they are to be put to death.

" 'If anyone takes the life of a human being, he must be put to death.

"‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.

Anyone who takes the life of someone's animal must make restitution-life for life.

Anyone who takes the life of someone's animal must make restitution—life for life.

If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:

Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner:

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.

Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.

Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death.

You are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.' "

You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the Lord your God.'"

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.

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.