The Oil for the Lamps (Exodus 27:20–21)
1 ULT And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 ULT “Command the sons of Israel, and they shall bring to you pure oil of olive, beaten, for the light, to make a lamp go up continually. BSB BSB: “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
3 ULT From outside of the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening until morning to the face of Yahweh continually.{ It is} a statute of eternity for 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 ULT On the pure lampstand he shall arrange the lamps to the face of Yahweh 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 ULT And you shall take flour and you shall bake it{ into} 12 loaves. Two- tenths{ of an ephah} shall be the one loaf. BSB BSB: You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
6 ULT And you shall place them{ in} two rows, six{ in} the row, on the pure table to the face of Yahweh. BSB BSB: and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
7 ULT And you shall put on the row pure frankincense, and it shall be for the bread as a memorial portion, a gift to Yahweh. 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 ULT On the day of the sabbath, on the day of the sabbath, he shall arrange it to the face of Yahweh continually from the sons of Israel, a covenant of eternity. 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 ULT And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it{ is} a holy of holies for him from the gifts of Yahweh, a statute of eternity.” 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 ULT And a son of an Israelite woman(and he{ was} a son of an Egyptian man) went out among the sons of Israel. And they fought in the camp, the son of the Israelite woman and the Israelite man. 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 ULT And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. And the name of his mother{ was} Shelomith, 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 ULT And they placed him in custody to declare to them according to the mouth of Yahweh. BSB BSB: They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
13 ULT And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
14 ULT “Bring out the curser to outside of the camp, and all the hearers shall lay their hands on his head, and all the congregation shall 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 ULT And to the sons of Israel you shall speak, saying,‘A man, a man if he curses his God, then he 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 ULT And the blasphemer{ of} the name of Yahweh— dying, he shall be executed. Stoning, all the congregation shall stone him. As{ for} the sojourner, as{ for} the native- born, when he blasphemes the Name, he shall 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.
An Eye for an Eye (Matthew 5:38–48)
17 ULT And a man, when he strikes any life of a man— dying, he shall be executed. BSB BSB: And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
18 ULT And a striker of the life of a livestock shall restore it, a life for a life. BSB BSB: Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.
19 ULT And a man, when he gives a blemish to his fellow citizen, just as he did, thus it shall be done to him: BSB BSB: If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:
20 ULT fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he gives a blemish in the man, thus it shall be given to him. 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 ULT And a striker of livestock shall restore it, but a striker of a man shall be executed. BSB BSB: Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
22 ULT One judgment shall be for you. As{ for} the sojourner, as{ for} the native- born it shall be, for I{ am} Yahweh 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 ULT And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought out the curser to outside of the camp, and they stoned him{ with} stone. And the sons of Israel did just as Yahweh 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.
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