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Lord said to Moses, 2 “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps may be kept burning continually. 3 Outside the curtain of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps from evening until morning before the Lord, continually. This is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations. 4 He must continually tend to the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.
5 “You are to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves with it, using two-tenths of an ephah in each loaf. 6 Place them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord. 7 Put some pure frankincense along each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread and an offering made to the Lord by fire. 8 This bread is to be regularly set out every Sabbath day before the Lord, on behalf of the Israelites as part of the perpetual covenant. 9 It belongs to Aaron and his sons and they are to eat it in a holy place, because it is the holiest portion for him from the offerings made to the Lord by fire; this is a perpetual statute.”
10 Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man. 11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s names was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.) 12 They put him in custody until the will of the Lord should be made clear to them.
13 Then the Lord said to Moses, 14 “Take the one who has cursed outside the camp; then have all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and the whole community is to stone him.
15 “Then tell the Israelites: ‘If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin. 16 Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord must be put to death; and the whole community must stone him. Whether he is a foreign resident or born in the land, if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.
17 ‘If a man kills another person, he must be put to death. 18 Anyone who kills an animal is to make restitution for it, life for life. 19 If a man injures his neighbour, whatever he has done must be done to him: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he has inflicted on a man, so it must done to him. 21 Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it; but whoever kills a man must be put to death. 22 You are to have the same law for the foreign resident and the native-born. I am the Lord your God’.”
23 Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the man who had blasphemed outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses.