God tells Moses to keep the lamps burning and the bread set out in the tabernacle. A man blasphemes the name of the LORD and is stoned, and the law of equal justice is stated.
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying ,
2 Command the children of Israel , that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light , to cause the lamps to burn continually .
3 Without the vail of the testimony , in the tabernacle of the congregation , shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually : it shall be a statute for ever in your generations .
4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually .
5 And thou shalt take fine flour , and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake .
6 And thou shalt set them in two rows , six on a row , upon the pure table before the LORD .
7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row , that it may be on the bread for a memorial , even an offering made by fire unto the LORD .
8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually , being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant .
9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons '; and they shall eat it in the holy place : for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute .
10 And the son of an Israelitish woman , whose father was an Egyptian , went out among the children of Israel : and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp ;
11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed . And they brought him unto Moses :(and his mother's name was Shelomith , the daughter of Dibri , of the tribe of Dan :)
12 And they put him in ward , that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
13 And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying ,
14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp ; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head , and let all the congregation stone him.
15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel , saying , Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin .
16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD , he shall surely be put to death , and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger , as he that is born in the land , when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death .
17 And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death .
18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good ; beast for beast .
19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour ; as he hath done , so shall it be done to him;
20 Breach for breach , eye for eye , tooth for tooth : as he hath caused a blemish in a man , so shall it be done to him again.
21 And he that killeth a beast , he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man , he shall be put to death .
22 Ye shall have one manner of law , as well for the stranger , as for one of your own country : for I am the LORD your God .
23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel , that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp , and stone him with stones . And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses .