Open English Translation LEV Chapter 24

24 Then Yahweh told Mosheh:

2 Order the Israelis to bring you pressed olive oil that’s pure, to supply lamps to give continual light. 3 The high priest (Aharon) must take care of them from evening until the morning to burn continually in front of Yahweh. That’s a permanent requirement that will continue throughout the generations. 4 He will arrange the lamps continually on the lampstand in front of Yahweh.

5 Each week you must take fine wheat flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two kilograms of flour for each loaf.[ref] 6 Arrange the loaves into two rows of six loaves on the pure table in front of Yahweh, 7 and put pure frankincense with each row to be a memorial portion for the bread as a gift to Yahweh. 8 Every rest day it will be placed in front of Yahweh representing the ongoing agreement with the Israelis. 9 Afterwards, it will belong to Aharon and his sons, and they must eat it in a sacred area because it’s a very sacred part of the gifts for Yahweh. That’s a permanent rule.[ref]

10 Once there was an Israeli woman and an Egyptian man who had a son who lived among the Israelis, and he got into a fight with an Israeli man. 11 Then that son of the Israeli woman slandered Yahweh’s name and cursed, and so the people took him to Mosheh. (The mother was Shelomit, a daughter of Dibri from the Dan tribe.) 12 They held him in custody while waiting for Yahweh’s decision.

13 Then Yahweh told Mosheh:

14 Take that man who cursed outside the camp, and everyone who heard him must place their hands on his head, and then all the people must execute him by throwing rocks at him. 15 Then tell the people that anyone who curses God must bear the results of their own wickedness. 16 Anyone who slanders Yahweh’s reputation must be executed. The gathered assembly must throw rocks at them. It makes no difference whether they’re a foreigner staying there, or a native-born Israeli.

17 Anyone who murders another person, must definitely be executed.[ref] 18 Anyone who kills someone else’s animal, must make restitution with the same kind of animal.

19 Anyone who injures a fellow citizen, must have the same done to them—20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth—however they injured the other person, that’s what must be done to them.[ref] 21 Anyone who kills someone else’s animal must replace it, but anyone who kills another person must be executed. 22 There’s only one set of regulations for both the foreigner and the native-born citizen because I am your god Yahweh.[ref]

23 Mosheh passed all that onto the people, and they took the man who had cursed Yahweh outside the camp where they executed him with rocks. The Israelis did exactly what Yahweh had commanded them via Mosheh.