Leviticus 24 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

The Lamp and the Bread of the Sanctuary

(Exo 27:20, 21 )

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Lev 24:2“Command the children of Israel to bring to you clear oil from beaten olives for the light [of the golden lampstand], to make a lamp burn continually.

Lev 24:3

Lev 24:3“Outside the veil of the Testimony [between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place] in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall always keep the lamps [fn]burning before the LORD from evening until morning; it shall be a permanent statute throughout your generations.

Lev 24:4

Lev 24:4“He shall keep the lamps burning on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

Lev 24:5

“Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes (bread of the Presence, showbread) with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake (loaf).

Lev 24:6

Lev 24:6“You shall set the bread of the Presence (showbread) in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.

Lev 24:7

Lev 24:7“You shall put pure frankincense [in two censers, one] beside each row, so that it may be with the bread as a memorial portion, an offering by fire to the LORD.

Lev 24:8

Lev 24:8“Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange the showbread before the LORD continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the Israelites.

Lev 24:9

Lev 24:9“The bread of the Presence 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 by fire to the LORD, his portion forever.”

Lev 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 struggled with each other in the camp.

Lev 24:11

Lev 24:11The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name [of the LORD] and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Lev 24:12

Lev 24:12They put him in custody until the will and command of the LORD might be made clear to them.

Lev 24:13

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Lev 24:14

Lev 24:14“Bring the one who has cursed [the LORD] outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head [as witnesses to his guilt]; then let all the congregation stone him.

Lev 24:15

Lev 24:15“You shall speak to the Israelites, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God will bear his sin [through his own death].

Lev 24:16

Lev 24:16‘Further, the one who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall most certainly be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him. The stranger as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name [of the LORD].

“An Eye for an Eye”

Lev 24:17

‘If a man takes the life of any human being [unlawfully], he shall most certainly be put to death.

Lev 24:18

Lev 24:18‘The one who kills an animal shall replace it, animal for animal.

Lev 24:19

Lev 24:19‘If a man injures his neighbor (fellow citizen), whatever he has done shall be done to him:

Lev 24:20

Lev 24:20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so shall the same be done to him.

Lev 24:21

Lev 24:21‘The one who kills an animal shall replace it; but he who kills a human being [unlawfully] shall be put to death.

Lev 24:22

Lev 24:22‘You shall have one standard of law for the stranger among you as well as for the native, for I am the LORD your God.’”

Lev 24:23

Lev 24:23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they brought the one who had cursed [the LORD] outside the camp and stoned him with stones. Thus the Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Leviticus 24 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

The Lamp and the Bread of the Sanctuary

“An Eye for an Eye”

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Leviticus Chapter 24 — Additional Translations:

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