| 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, | |
| 2 “Command the Israelites to bring you oil from pressed olives for the light, that a lamp may be kept burning continually. | |
| 3 Aaron shall keep the flame in order from evening until morning in the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil of the Statement. It shall be a lasting ordinance for all generations. | |
| 4 He shall set the lamps on the pure gold lampstand to burn continually before Yahweh. | |
| 5 Then you shall take fine flour and make twelve cakes, two-tenths of a measure in each cake. | |
| 6 Place them in two rows, six in each, on the pure gold table before Yahweh. | |
| 7 On each row put pure frankincense, so that the bread may be a memorial, as an offering by fire to Yahweh. | |
| 8 Every sabbath Aaron shall set the bread in order before Yahweh on behalf of the Israelites as a lasting covenant. | |
| 9 The bread will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to consider it as a most holy portion of the sacrifices by fire to Yahweh and they shall eat it in a holy place. This is a lasting law.” | |
| 10 The son of an Israelite woman quarreled with a man of Israel in the camp and | |
| 11 the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the name of Yahweh with a curse, so they brought him to Moses. (His mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan). | |
| 12 They put him under guard until a decision from Yahweh would be made known. | |
| 13 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take the man who has cursed out of the camp. | |
| 14 All who have heard him curse will lay their hands on his head and the entire assembly shall stone him to death. | |
| 15 Then say this to the Israelites: The man who curses God shall pay for his sin | |
| 16 and whoever blasphemes the name of Yahweh shall be put to death. The whole assembly shall stone him; the alien, like the native, shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name. | |
| 17 Whoever kills a man shall be put to death. | |
| 18 Whoever kills an animal shall replace the loss, life for life. | |
| 19 If a man injures his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him. | |
| 20 Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, just as he has injured another, so shall it be done to him. | |
| 21 He who kills a beast shall make up for it, and he who kills a man shall be put to death. | |
| 22 There shall be one law, the same for the alien and the native, for I am Yahweh, your God.” | |
| 23 So Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the man who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him. In this way the Israelites did as Yahweh had commanded Moses. | |
