Oil for the Lampstand and Bread for the Table
1Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 2“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, to keep the lamp burning continually. 3Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamp before Yahweh continually, from evening until morning. This is a lasting statute for the generations to come. 4He is to tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before Yahweh continually. 5Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah of flour for each loaf. 6Arrange them in two rows of six on the pure gold table before Yahweh. 7Put pure frankincense next to each row, as a memorial portion for the bread, a food offering to Yahweh. 8Every Sabbath day this bread is to be set out before Yahweh continually; it is from the Israelites, a lasting covenant. 9It belongs to Aaron and his descendants, and they are to eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy portion for him from the food offerings of Yahweh — a lasting statute.”
The Blasphemer Is Stoned
10Now the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian man went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite man. 11The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name with a curse, and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 12They put him in custody until the will of Yahweh should be made clear to them. 13Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 14“Take the one who cursed outside the camp. All who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the whole community is to stone him. 15Tell the Israelites: Anyone who curses his God will bear the guilt for it. 16Anyone who blasphemes the name of Yahweh is to be put to death; the whole community is to stone him. Whether foreigner or native-born, if he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death. 17Anyone who takes a human life is to be put to death. 18Anyone who takes the life of an animal is to make restitution for it — life for life. 19Anyone who injures his neighbor is to be given the same injury he inflicted — 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he has given another, the same is to be given to him. 21Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death. 22You are to have the same law for the foreigner as for the native-born, for I am Yahweh your God.” 23So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
