The Oil for the Lamps (Exodus 27:20–21)
1 AKJV And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 AKJV Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. BSB BSB: “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
3 AKJV Without the veil of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening to the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations. BSB BSB: Outside the veil of the Testimony 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.
4 AKJV He shall order the lamps on the pure candlestick before the LORD continually. BSB BSB: He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
The Showbread (Exodus 25:23–30; Exodus 37:10–16)
5 AKJV And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. BSB BSB: You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
6 AKJV And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure table before the LORD. BSB BSB: and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
7 AKJV And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD. BSB BSB: And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, a food offering to the LORD.
8 AKJV Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. BSB BSB: Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.
9 AKJV And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute. BSB BSB: 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 food offerings to the LORD—his portion forever.”
Punishment for Blasphemy 10 AKJV And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; BSB BSB: 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.
11 AKJV And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him to Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) BSB BSB: 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.)
12 AKJV And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be showed them. BSB BSB: They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
13 AKJV And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
14 AKJV Bring forth him that has cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. BSB BSB: “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.
15 AKJV And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. BSB BSB: And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.
16 AKJV And he that blasphemes the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemes the name of the Lord, shall be put to death. BSB BSB: 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.
An Eye for an Eye (Matthew 5:38–48)
17 AKJV And he that kills any man shall surely be put to death. BSB BSB: And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
18 AKJV And he that kills a beast shall make it good; beast for beast. BSB BSB: Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.
19 AKJV And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him; BSB BSB: If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:
20 AKJV Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again. BSB BSB: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.
21 AKJV And he that kills a beast, he shall restore it: and he that kills a man, he shall be put to death. BSB BSB: Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
22 AKJV You shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God. BSB BSB: You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
23 AKJV And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses. BSB BSB: 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.