Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you aclear oil from beaten olives for the 1light, to make a lamp 2burn continually.Or luminaryLit ascendEx 27:20, 21 3 Outside the veil of testimony in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations. 4 He shall keep the lamps in order on the apure gold lampstand before Yahweh continually.Ex 25:31; 31:8; 37:17
5 “aThen you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.Ex 25:30; 39:36; 40:23 6 And you shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the apure gold table before Yahweh.Ex 25:24; 1 Kin 7:48 7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be aa memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to Yahweh.Lev 2:2, 9, 16 8 aEvery sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh bcontinually; it is an everlasting covenant 1for the sons of Israel.Lit fromMatt 12:5Ex 25:30; Num 4:7; 2 Chr 2:4 9 aAnd it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings to Yahweh by fire, his portion forever.”Matt 12:4; Mark 2:26; Luke 6:4
10 Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the sons of Israel; and the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel struggled with each other in the camp. 11 And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the aName and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)Ex 3:15; 22:28; Job 2:5, 9; Is 8:21 12 And they put him in 1custody 2so that athe command of Yahweh might be made clear to them.Or prisonLit to declare distinctly to them according to the mouth of YahwehEx 18:15; Num 15:34
13 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 14 “Bring the one who has cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard him alay their hands on his head; then blet all the congregation stone him.Deut 13:9; 17:7Lev 20:2, 27; Deut 21:21 15 And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘aIf anyone curses his God, then he will bear his sin.Ex 22:28 16 Moreover, the one who ablasphemes the name of Yahweh shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.1 Kin 21:10; Matt 12:31; Mark 3:28f
17 ‘aIf a man strikes down the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death.Gen 9:6; Ex 21:12; Num 35:30, 31; Deut 27:24 18 aAnd the one who strikes down the life of an animal shall make restitution for it, life for life.Lev 24:21 19 If a man 1injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him:Lit gives a blemish 20 afracture for fracture, beye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has 1injured a man, so it shall be 2inflicted on him.Lit given a blemishLit givenEx 21:23; Deut 19:21Matt 5:38 21 Thus the one who strikes down an animal shall make restitution for it, but athe one who strikes down a man shall be put to death.Lev 24:17 22 There shall be aone standard of judgment for you; it shall be for the sojourner as well as the native, for I am Yahweh your God.’”Ex 12:49; Num 9:14; 15:15, 16, 29 23 Then Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. Thus the sons of Israel did, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.