Leviticus 24

¹And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

²Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee oil of olives most pure, and clear, to furnish the lamps continually,

³without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of covenant. And Aaron shall set them from even until morning before the Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations.

⁴Upon the candle stick most clean shall they be put always in the sight of the Lord.

⁵Thou shalt take also flour, & shalt bake thereof twelve breads, which shall have every one two tenths:

⁶which thou shalt set six one against another upon the most clean table before the Lord,

⁷and thou shalt put upon them the clearest frankincense, that the bread may be for a monument of the oblation of the Lord.

⁸Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord, received of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant:

⁹and they shall be Aaron's and his sons', that they may eat them in a holy place: because it is most Holy of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual right.

¹⁰And behold there went forth the son of a woman of Israel, whom she had born of an Ægyptian among the children of Israel, and fell at words in the camp with a man of Israel.

¹¹And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moyses: (And his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri of the tribe of Dan.)

¹²And they did cast him into prison, till they might know what our Lord would command.

¹³Who spake to Moyses,

¹⁴saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp, and let all that heard him put their hands upon his head, and let all the people stone him.

¹⁵And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak: The man that curseth his God shall bear his sin:

¹⁶and he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die: all the multitude of the people shall stone him, whether he be a natural, or stranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.

¹⁷He that striketh, and killeth a man, dying let him die.

¹⁸He that striketh a beast, shall render one for it, that is to say, soul for soul.

¹⁹He that giveth any of his neighbours a blemish, as he did, so shall it be done to him:

²⁰fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth he shall restore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to sustain.

²¹He that striketh a beast, shall render another. He that striketh a man, shall be punished.

²²Let there be equal judgment among you, whether a stranger, or a natural sin: because I am the Lord your God.

²³And Moyses spake to the children of Israel: and they brought him forth that had blasphemed, without the camp, and they stoned him. And the children of Israel did as our Lord had commanded Moyses.