Oil and bread to be continually before God
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And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 📚“Command the children of Israel to bring to you clear oil of beaten olives for the light, so that the lamps will burn continually. 3 Aaron shall keep the lamps in order outside the veil of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, from evening to morning before the LORD continually. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 4 📚He shall keep the lamps in order on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.5 📚“And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve loaves with it; two-tenths of an ephah 📖 shall be used in each loaf. 6 📚And you shall place them in two rows, six to a row, on the table of pure gold before the LORD. 7 📚And you shall put pure frankincense on each row to be a memorial portion for the bread, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 8 📚He shall place it in order before the LORD regularly every Sabbath. It is an everlasting covenant for the children of Israel. 9 📚And it shall belong to Aaron and his sons. And they shall eat it in a holy place; for it shall be most holy to him among the offerings of the LORD made by fire, his portion forever”.
Punishment for blasphemy
10 📚And the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this son of the Israelite woman and an Israelite man had a fight in the camp, 11 📚and the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the name of the LORD and cursed. And they brought him to Moses (his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan), 12 📚and they put him in custody so that the mind of the LORD might be made clear to them.
13 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 14 📚“Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and have all who heard him put their hands on his head, and have all the congregation stone him. 15 📚And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God will bear his sin, 16 📚and the one who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him, the foreigner just as the native-born; if he blasphemes the name of the LORD he shall be put to death.
24:14-16 This instruction indicates how grievous a sin blasphemy is. God will punish those who do not regard His name as holy and who misuse it (Ex 20:7; 22:28; Lev 19:12; Deut 5:11; 28:58). Death was decreed because it was a sin worthy of death. Also God did not want the practice to spread among His people, and severe punishment was a way of hindering this. For a list of offenses under the law for which death was ordered see note at Ex 21:36.🪶
17 📚“And the person who takes the life of any human being shall surely be put to death. 18 📚And the one who kills an animal must make restitution for it, animal for animal. 19 📚And if a man injures his neighbour, it is to be done to him just as he did, 20 📚fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; it is to be done to him just as he injured the other man.
24:20Ex 21:23; Deut 19:21. This was the law of the nation and it was perfectly just. It was to be enforced by the nation’s judges and leaders and not by the individual.🪶
21 📚And he who kills an animal shall make restitution for it; but he who kills a man must be put to death. 22 📚You are to have the same law for the foreigner as for the native-born; for I am the LORD your God”.
23 📚And Moses told the children of Israel to bring the one who had cursed outside the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.