1The LORD spoke to Moses and said,
2"Command the children of Israel to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning all the time."
3"Aaron shall keep it in order outside the veil of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, from evening until morning before the LORD, all the time. This shall be a law for ever, through all your generations."
4"He shall keep the lamps in order on the pure lampstand before the LORD all the time."
5"You shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it. Each cake shall be of two tenth parts."
6"You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure table before the LORD."
7"You shall put pure frankincense on each row, so that it may be on the bread as a memorial, an offering made by fire to the LORD."
8"Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD, all the time. It is taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant."
9"It shall belong to Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in the holy place. For it is most holy to him, from the offerings made by fire to the LORD, by a law that lasts for ever."
10The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel. This son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel fought together in the camp.
11The Israelite woman's son spoke against the name of the LORD and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
12They put him under guard, until the mind of the LORD should be shown to them.
13The LORD spoke to Moses and said,
14"Bring the man who cursed outside the camp. Let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him."
15"You shall say to the children of Israel, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin."
16"'And the one who speaks against the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The stranger and the one born in the land alike shall be put to death when he speaks against the name of the LORD."
17"'And whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death."
18"'Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal."
19"'If a man injures his neighbour, then what he has done shall be done to him:"
20"'break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured a man, so shall it be done to him again."
21"'Whoever kills an animal shall pay for it, and whoever kills a man shall be put to death."
22"'You shall have one law for the stranger and for one of your own country alike, for I am the LORD your God.'"
23So Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought the man who had cursed out of the camp and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.