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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Leviticus 24</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/leviticus/24.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//leviticus/24-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/leviticus/">Leviticus</a> > Leviticus 24</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/23.htm" title="Leviticus 23">◄</a> Leviticus 24 <a href="../leviticus/25.htm" title="Leviticus 25">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/leviticus/24.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/leviticus/24.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/leviticus/24.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/leviticus/24.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/leviticus/24.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/leviticus/24.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/24.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Oil for the Lamps<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../exodus/27.htm#20">Exodus 27:20–21</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to Moses, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Outside the veil of the Testimony<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually. <A name="6"></a><p class="hdg">The Showbread<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../exodus/25.htm#23">Exodus 25:23–30</a>; <a href ="../exodus/37.htm#10">Exodus 37:10–16</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, an offering made by fire to the LORD. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place; for it is to him a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD—his portion forever.” <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Punishment for Blasphemy<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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 him and an Israelite. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.) <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to Moses, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Take the blasphemer<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death. <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">An Eye for an Eye<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/5.htm#38">Matthew 5:38–48</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him. <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>The Testimony</i><span class="thin"> </span> refers to the stone tablets in the ark of the covenant inscribed with the Ten Commandments.<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>Two-tenths of an ephah</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 4 dry quarts or 4.4 liters (probably about 5.1 pounds or 2.3 kilograms of flour).<br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Literally <i>the one who cursed</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Cited in <a href="../matthew/5.htm#38">Matthew 5:38</a><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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