Vayikra (Leviticus) - Chapter 24

24:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 24:2 "Command the B'nai Yisrael, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 24:3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tabernacle, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Mar-Yah continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 24:4 He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold menorah before Mar-Yah continually.

24:5 "You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an efah shall be in one cake. 24:6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Mar-Yah. 24:7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Mar-Yah. 24:8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Mar-Yah continually. It is on the behalf of the B'nai Yisrael an everlasting covenant. 24:9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Mar-Yah made by fire by a perpetual statute."

24:10 The son of an Yisraelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the B'nai Yisrael; and the son of the Yisraelite woman and a man of Yisrael strove together in the camp. 24:11 The son of the Yisraelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Mosha. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 24:12 They put him in custody, until the will of Mar-Yah should be declared to them.

24:13 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 24:14 "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. 24:15 You shall speak to the B'nai Yisrael, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. 24:16 He who blasphemes the name of Mar-Yah, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

24:17 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death. 24:18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life. 24:19 If anyone injures his neighbour; as he has done, so shall it be done to him: 24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him. 24:21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death. 24:22 You shall have one kind of law, for the foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am Mar-Yah your God.'"

24:23 Mosha spoke to the B'nai Yisrael; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The B'nai Yisrael did as Mar-Yah commanded Mosha.