24: 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
24: 2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, 109to cause a lamp to burn continually.
109Or, to set up a lamp continually.

24: 3 Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah continually: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.
24: 4 He shall keep in order the lamps upon the pure lampstand before Jehovah continually.
24: 5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
24: 6 And thou shalt set them in 110two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah.
110Or, two piles, six in a pile,

24: 7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each 111row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
111Or, pile,

24: 8 Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is 112on the behalf of the children of Israel, an 113everlasting covenant.
112Or, from
113Hb. owlam, without any fixed expiration See footnote on Ex 21:6.


24: 9 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire by a perpetual statute.
24: 10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp:
24: 11 and the son of the Israelitish woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
24: 12 And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of Jehovah.
24: 13 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
24: 14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
24: 15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
24: 16 And he that blasphemeth the name of Jehovah, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the sojourner, as the home-born, when he blasphemeth the name of Jehovah, shall be put to death.
24: 17 And he that smiteth any soul of a man mortally shall surely be put to death.
24: 18 And 114he that smiteth the soul of a beast shall make it good, soul for soul.
114Hb. a smiter of the soul of an animal shall make it good, soul for soul.

24: 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:
24: 20 breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him.
24: 21 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.
24: 22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Jehovah your God.
24: 23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. And the children of Israel did as Jehovah commanded Moses.