24:1  AND THE Lord said to Moses,

24:2  Command the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil from beaten olives for the light [of the golden lampstand] to cause a lamp to burn continually.

24:3  Outside the veil of the Testimony [between the Holy and the Most Holy Places] in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

24:4  He shall keep the lamps in order upon the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord continually.

24:5  And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake [of the showbread {or} bread of the Presence].

24:6  And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the table of pure gold before the Lord.

24:7  You shall put pure frankincense [in a bowl or spoon] beside each row, that it may be with the bread as a memorial portion, an offering to be made by fire to the Lord.

24:8  Every Sabbath day Aaron shall set the showbread in order before the Lord continually; it is on behalf of the Israelites, an everlasting covenant.

24:9  And the bread shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a sacred place, for it is for [Aaron] a most holy portion of the offerings to the Lord made by fire, a perpetual due [to the high priest].

24:10  Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the Israelites, and he and a man of Israel quarreled {and} strove together in the camp.

24:11  The Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name [of the Lord] and cursed. They brought him to Moses--his mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

24:12  And they put him in custody until the will of the Lord might be declared to them.

24:13  And the Lord said to Moses,

24:14  Bring him who has cursed out of the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head; then let all the congregation stone him.

24:15  And you shall say to the Israelites, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

24:16  And he who blasphemes the Name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him; the stranger as well as he who was born in the land shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name [of the Lord].

24:17  And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.

24:18  And he who kills a beast shall make it good, beast for beast.

24:19  And if a man causes a blemish {or} disfigurement on his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:

24:20  Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish {or} disfigurement on a man, so shall it be done to him.

24:21  He who kills a beast shall replace it; he who kills a man shall be put to death.

24:22  You shall have the same law for the sojourner among you as for one of your own nationality, for I am the Lord your God.

24:23  Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp and stoned him with stones. Thus the Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses.