1 ARST Yahweh also said to Moses, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 ARST “Command the Israelite people to constantly bring you clear oil made from pressed olives to burn in the lamps in the sacred tent, in order that those lamps will burn all the time. BSB BSB: “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
3 ARST Outside the curtain of the very holy place, Aaron must take care of the lamps in my presence continually, in order that they will burn all during the night. That regulation must be obeyed forever. 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 ARST The priests must constantly take care of the lamps that burn in my presence. BSB BSB: He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
5 ARST Also, each week you must take some fine flour and bake twelve very big loaves of bread, using four and one- half liters of flour for each loaf. BSB BSB: You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
6 ARST Put the loaves in two rows, with six loaves in each row, on the table covered with pure gold, in my presence. BSB BSB: and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
7 ARST Along each row, place on the gold table some pure incense to be burned as an offering to me instead of the bread. 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 ARST The priests must put new loaves of bread on the table each Sabbath day, to signify the covenant that will never end, which I have made with you Israelites. 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 ARST When the loaves are removed from the table, they will belong to Aaron and his sons. They must eat them in a place set aside for this purpose, because they are part of the offerings— the offerings that belong only to me— that are given to me by being burned.” 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.”
10 ARST There was a man whose mother’ s name was Shelomith. She was an Israelite whose father was Dibri from the tribe of Dan. Her son’ s father was from Egypt. One day this man and another Israelite man started to fight inside the camp. And while they were fighting, that man cursed Yahweh. 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.
12 ARST So the Israelite people seized him and guarded him until they could find out what Yahweh would reveal to them what they should do to that man. BSB BSB: They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
13 ARST Then Yahweh said to Moses, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
14 ARST “Tie up and take outside the camp the man who has cursed me. There all those who heard what he said must put their hands on his head to indicate that he is guilty, and then all the people must kill him by throwing stones at 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 ARST Tell the Israelites,‘If anyone curses me, he must endure the consequences. BSB BSB: And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.
16 ARST So anyone who curses me must be executed. All the people must throw stones at him. It does not matter if he is a foreigner or an Israelite from birth. Anyone who curses me must be executed. 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.
17 ARST Also, if anyone murders another person, the people must execute him. BSB BSB: And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
18 ARST And anyone who kills another person’ s animal must give that person a live animal to replace the one that he killed. BSB BSB: Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.
19 ARST And if one person injures another person, the injured person is allowed to injure the person who injured him in the same way. BSB BSB: If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:
20 ARST If someone breaks one of another person’ s bones, that person is allowed to break one of the bones of the person who injured him. If someone gouges out an eye of another person, that person is allowed to gouge out the eye of the person who injured him. If someone knocks out the tooth of another person, that person is allowed to knock out one of his teeth. What is done to the offender must be the same as what he did to the other person. 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 ARST Whoever kills another person’ s animal must give that person a live animal to replace the one that he killed, but the people must execute anyone who murders another person. BSB BSB: Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
22 ARST You Israelites and foreigners who live among you must all have that same law. I, Yahweh your God, am the one who has commanded it.” 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 ARST Then Moses told the Israelites what they must do to the man who cursed Yahweh, so they took the man outside the camp and killed him by throwing stones at him. They did what Yahweh commanded Moses to tell them to do. 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.
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