The Oil for the Lamps (Exodus 27:20–21)
1 UST Yahweh also said to Moses, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 UST “Command the Israelite people to constantly bring you clear oil made from pressed olives. This is to burn in the lamps{ in the sacred tent} in order that those lamps will be lit 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 UST Aaron must take care of the lamps in Yahweh’ s presence continually, so that they will burn all night long. You must obey this rule forever. Outside the curtain of the very holy place which is in the sacred tent 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 UST on the lampstand that is dedicated to Yahweh, he must constantly take care of the lamps that burn in Yahweh’ s presence. 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 UST Also, each week you must take some fine flour and bake twelve 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 UST Put the loaves in two rows, with six loaves in each row, on the table covered with pure gold in Yahweh’ s presence. BSB BSB: and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
7 UST Along each row, place on{ the gold table} some pure incense. It will represent the bread, and{ the priest will burn} it as a present for Yahweh 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 UST The priests must put new loaves of bread on the table each Sabbath day. You Israelites continually offering this gift to me, Yahweh, represents the never- ending covenant between us. 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 UST When they remove the loaves from the table, they will belong to Aaron and his descendants. They must eat them in a sacred place set aside for this purpose, because they are a very sacred part of the presents to Yahweh. This food will always be for the priestly family.” 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 UST There was a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father. His mother’ s name was Shelomith. Her father was Dibri from the tribe of Dan. One day the half- Israelite man was walking in the Israelite camp, and he and an Israelite man started fighting there in the camp. While they were fighting, the half- Israelite man said bad things about Yahweh and cursed Yahweh. Then some people took the half- Israelite man to Moses. 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 UST Moses had some people guard him until they could find out from Yahweh what they should do to him. BSB BSB: They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
13 UST Then Yahweh said to Moses, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
14 UST “Take the man who cursed me outside the camp. There all those who heard what he said must put their hands on his head{ to indicate that he is guilty}. 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 UST Tell the Israelites,‘If anyone curses God, you must punish him for sinning. BSB BSB: And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.
16 UST So you must surely execute anyone who curses Yahweh. All the people must throw stones at him until he is dead. It does not matter if he is a foreigner or an Israelite from birth. You must surely execute anyone who curses Yahweh. 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 UST Also, if anyone murders another person, the people must surely execute him. BSB BSB: And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
18 UST 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 UST If one Israelite injures another Israelite, injure the person who caused the injury in the same way as the injury he caused. BSB BSB: If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:
20 UST If someone breaks one of another person’ s bones, break the same bone of the person who caused the injury. If someone injures another person’ s eye, injure his eye. If someone knocks out another person’ s tooth, knock out one of his teeth. Do to the offender 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 UST 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 UST You Israelites and foreigners who live among you must all have that same law. Remember: 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 UST Then Moses told the Israelites everything Yahweh had said. So they took the man who had cursed Yahweh outside the camp and killed him by throwing stones at him. The Israelites did exactly what Yahweh commanded them to do through 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.
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.