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24:1  The Lord said to Moses:
24:2  Command the Israelites to bring pure, pressed olive oil to you for the lamp, to keep a light burning constantly.
24:3  Aaron will tend the lamp, which will be inside the meeting tent but outside the inner curtain of the covenant document, from evening until morning before the Lord. This is a permanent rule throughout your future generations.
24:4  Aaron must continually tend the lights on the pure lampstand before the Lord.
24:5  You will take choice flour and bake twelve loaves of flatbread, two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.
24:6  You must place them in two stacks, six in a stack, on the pure table before the Lord.
24:7  Put pure frankincense on each stack, as a token portion for the bread; it is a food gift for the Lord.
24:8  Aaron will always set it out before the Lord, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a permanent covenant.
24:9  It will belong to Aaron and his sons. They must eat it in a holy place because it is the most holy part of their share of the Lord’s food gifts, a permanent portion.
24:10  The son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father came out among the Israelites. A fight broke out between this half-Israelite and another Israelite man in the camp,
24:11  during which the half-Israelite blasphemed the Lord’s name and cursed. So he was brought to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, Dibri’s daughter from the tribe of Dan.)
24:12  He was put under guard until they could determine the Lord’s verdict.
24:13  Then the Lord said to Moses:
24:14  Take the one who cursed outside the camp. All who heard him will press their hands on his head. Then the whole community will stone him.
24:15  Tell the Israelites: Anyone who curses God will be liable to punishment.
24:16  And anyone who blasphemes the Lord’s name must be executed. The whole community will stone that person. Immigrant and citizen alike: whenever someone blasphemes the Lord’s name, that person will be executed.
24:17  If anyone kills another person, they must be executed.
24:18  Someone who kills an animal may make amends for it: a life for a life.
24:19  If someone injures a fellow citizen, they will suffer the same injury they inflicted:
24:20  broken bone for broken bone, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The same injury the person inflicted on the other will be inflicted on them.
24:21  Someone who kills an animal must make amends for it, but whoever kills a human being must be executed.
24:22  There is but one law on this matter for you, immigrant or citizen alike, because I am the Lord your God.
24:23  Moses told this to the Israelites. So they took the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did just as the Lord commanded Moses.