Leviticus 24:4-22

⁴He is to constantly look after the lamps placed on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.

⁵Using the best flour bake twelve loaves, with two-tenths of an ephah of flour per loaf.

⁶Place them in two piles, six in each pile, on the table made of pure gold that stands before the Lord.

⁷Place pure frankincense beside each pile to go with the bread to act as the ‘reminder part,’ a food offering to the Lord.

⁸Every Sabbath day the bread shall be placed before the Lord, given by the Israelites as an ongoing sign of the eternal agreement.

⁹It is for Aaron and his descendants. They are to eat it in a holy place; for they must treat it as a most holy part of the food offerings given to the Lord. It is their share of the food offerings for all time.”

¹⁰One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went into the Israelite camp and had a fight with an Israelite.

¹¹The Israelite woman's son cursed the name of the Lord. So they took him before Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan.)

¹²They detained him until it was clear what the Lord wanted them to do about it.

¹³The Lord told Moses,

¹⁴“Take the man who cursed me outside the camp. Have all who heard him curse put their hands on his head; then have everyone stone him to death.

¹⁵Tell the Israelites that anyone who curses their God will be punished for their sin.

¹⁶Anyone who curses the name of the Lord must to be executed. All of you must stone them to death, whether they are a foreigner who lives with you or an Israelite. If they curse my name, they must be executed.

¹⁷Anyone who kills someone else must be executed.

¹⁸Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it—a life for a life.

¹⁹If anyone injures someone else, whatever they've done must be done to them:

²⁰a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Whatever way they injured the victim, the same must be done to them.

²¹Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it, but anyone who kills someone else must be executed.

²²The same laws apply to foreigners who live with you as to Israelites, for I am the Lord your God.”