Leviticus 24 :: New International Version (NIV)

Olive Oil and Bread Set Before the Lord

(Exo 27:20, 21 )

Lev 24:1The LORD said to Moses,

Lev 24:2“Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.

Lev 24:3

Lev 24:3Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

Lev 24:4

Lev 24:4The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually.

Lev 24:5

Lev 24:5“Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah[fn] for each loaf.

Lev 24:6

Lev 24:6Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

Lev 24:7

Lev 24:7By each stack put some pure incense as a memorial[fn] portion to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the LORD.

Lev 24:8

Lev 24:8This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.

Lev 24:9

Lev 24:9It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in the sanctuary area, because it is a most holy part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the LORD.”

A Blasphemer Put to Death

Lev 24:10

Lev 24:10Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

Lev 24:11

Lev 24:11The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.)

Lev 24:12

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

Lev 24:13

Lev 24:13Then the LORD said to Moses:

Lev 24:14

Lev 24:14“Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.

Lev 24:15

Lev 24:15Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible;

Lev 24:16

Lev 24:16anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD is to be put to death. The entire assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme the Name they are to be put to death.

Lev 24:17

Lev 24:17“ ‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.

Lev 24:18

Lev 24:18Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution—life for life.

Lev 24:19

Lev 24:19Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner:

Lev 24:20

Lev 24:20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.

Lev 24:21

Lev 24:21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death.

Lev 24:22

Lev 24:22You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.’ ”

Lev 24:23

Lev 24:23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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NIV Footnotes

(24:5)

That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms

(24:7)

Or representative

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