Chapter
24
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
"Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
She shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before Yahweh continually.
"You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.
You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Every Sabbath day she shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.
It shall be for Aaron and her daughters; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to her of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute."
The daughter of an Israelite man, whose mother was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the daughter of the Israelite man and a woman of Israel strove together in the camp.
The daughter of the Israelite man blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought her to Moses. Her father's name was Shelomith, the son of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
They put her in custody, until the will of Yahweh should be declared to them.
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
"Bring out of the camp her who cursed; and let all who heard her lay their hands on her head, and let all the congregation stone her.
You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses her God shall bear her sin.
She who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, she shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone her: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when she blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
"'She who strikes any woman mortally shall surely be put to death.
She who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.
If anyone injures her neighbor; as she has done, so shall it be done to her:
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as she has injured someone, so shall it be done to her.
She who kills an animal shall make it good; and she who kills a woman shall be put to death.
You shall have one kind of law, for the foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am Yahweh your God.'"
Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth her who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned her with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.