Penalties for Blaspheming the Lord or for Killing |
Leviticus 24:1-23 The Third Book of Moses Called Leviticus |
The Lord [spoke] to Moses, saying, Command the children [people] of Israel, [so] they bring pure beaten olive oil to you for the light, [so] it can burn continually [outside] the veil of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation. |
Aaron shall [be in charge] & order the lamps on the pure [gold] candlestick [to stay lit] from evening to morning, before the Lord continually. It shall be a [mandate] forever in your generations. |
You shall take fine flour & bake 12 cakes [with it using] 2/10 of an [ephah in each] cake. They shall [be] set in 2 rows of 6, on a pure table before the Lord. You shall put pure frankincense on each row [of] bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to the Lord. |
Every Sabbath, [Aaron] shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children [people] of Israel by an everlasting covenant [contract.] It [is for Aaron] & his sons & they shall eat it in the holy place; for it is most holy to him [from] the offerings of the Lord made by fire [as] a perpetual [mandate.] |
The son of an [Israelite] woman, [Shelomith,] whose father was an Egyptian, (and his mother was [Debri’s] daughter of the tribe of Dan. The son of the [Israelite] woman went among the [people] of Israel. [Her] son & an [Israelite] man [fought] together in the camp. |
The [Israelite] woman’s son blasphemed the Name of the Lord & cursed. They brought him to Moses & they put him [under guard, until] the mind of the Lord might be [shown] to them. |
The Lord [spoke] to Moses, saying, Bring [out] the one [who] has cursed [outside] the camp & let all [who] heard him lay their hands on his head [while] all the congregation [stones] him. |
[Then] you shall speak to the [people] of Israel, saying, [Whoever] curses his God shall bear his sin & he [who] blasphemes the Name of the Lord, shall surely be put to death & all the congregation shall certainly stone him, [as well as] the stranger [who] is born in the land. When he blasphemes the Name of the Lord, he shall be put to death. |
[Whoever] kills any man, shall surely be put to death. He [who] kills [an animal] shall make it good; [& replace animal for animal.] If a man [causes a disfiguring injury, to] his neighbor, [the same] shall be done to him; [fracture for fracture,] eye for eye, tooth for tooth, as he has caused, it shall be done to him, [as well.] |
He [who] kills [an animal] shall restore it & he [who] kills a man, shall be put to death. You shall have one [type] of law for the stranger, as well [as, for someone from] your own country. |
For I am the Lord your God. Moses [spoke] to the children [people] of Israel, that they should bring [the person out, who] cursed out of the camp & stone him. The [people] of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses. |