Leviticus 24:20 - Prayer Tents

Taking Care of the Lamps

24The LORD told MosesH3068H1696H4872H559

2to give the following orders to the people of Israel: Bring pure olive oil of the finest quality for the lamps in the Tent, so that a light might be kept burning regularly.H6680H1121H3478H3947H2134H8081H2132H3795H3974H5216H5927H8548

3Each evening Aaron shall light them and keep them burning until morning, there in the LORD's presence outside the curtain in front of the Covenant Box, which is in the Most Holy Place. This regulation is to be observed for all time to come.H2351H6532H5715H168H4150H175H6186H6153H1242H6440H3068H8548H2708H5769H1755

4Aaron shall take care of the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold and must see that they burn regularly in the LORD's presence.H6186H5216H2889H4501H6440H3068H8548

The Bread Offered to God

5Take twenty-four pounds of flour and bake twelve loaves of bread.H3947H5560H644H6240H2471H8147H6241H259H2471

6Put the loaves in two rows, six in each row, on the table covered with pure gold, which is in the LORD's presence.H7760H8147H4634H8337H4635H2889H7979H6440H3068

7Put some pure incense on each row, as a token food offering to the LORD to take the place of the bread.H5414H2134H3828H4635H3899H234H801H3068

8Every Sabbath, for all time to come, the bread must be placed in the presence of the LORD. This is Israel's duty forever.H7676H3117H6186H6440H3068H8548H1121H3478H5769H1285

9The bread belongs to Aaron and his descendants, and they shall eat it in a holy place, because this is a very holy part of the food offered to the LORD for the priests.H175H1121H398H6918H4725H6944H6944H801H3068H801H5769H2706

An Example of Just and Fair Punishment

10There was a man whose father was an Egyptian and whose mother was an Israelite named Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri from the tribe of Dan.H1121H3482H802H1121H376H4713H3318H8432H1121H3478H3481H1121H3482H376H3478H5327H4264

11There in the camp this man quarreled with an Israelite. During the quarrel he cursed the LORD, so they took him to Moses,H3482H802H1121H5344H8034H7043H935H4872H517H8034H8019H1323H1704H4294H1835

12put him under guard, and waited for the LORD to tell them what to do with him.H3240H4929H6310H3068H6567

13The LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559

14"Take that man out of the camp. Everyone who heard him curse shall put his hands on the man's head to testify that he is guilty, and then the whole community shall stone him to death.H3318H7043H2351H4264H8085H5564H3027H7218H5712H7275

15Then tell the people of Israel that anyone who curses God must suffer the consequencesH1696H1121H3478H559H376H3588H7043H430H5375H2399

16and be put to death. Any Israelite or any foreigner living in Israel who curses the LORD shall be stoned to death by the whole community.H5344H8034H3068H4191H4191H5712H7275H7275H1616H249H5344H8034H4191

17"Any who commit murder shall be put to death,H376H5221H5315H120H4191H4191

18and any who kill an animal belonging to someone else must replace it. The principle is a life for a life.H5221H5315H929H7999H5315H5315

19"If any of you injure another person, whatever you have done shall be done to you.H376H5414H3971H5997H6213H6213

20If you break a bone, one of your bones shall be broken; if you put out an eye, one of your eyes shall be put out; if you knock out a tooth, one of your teeth shall be knocked out. Whatever injury you cause another person shall be done to you in return.H7667H7667H5869H5869H8127H8127H5414H3971H120H5414

21Whoever kills an animal shall replace it, but whoever kills a human being shall be put to death.H5221H929H7999H5221H120H4191

22This law applies to all of you, to Israelites and to foreigners living among you, because I am the LORD your God."H259H4941H1616H249H3068H430

23When Moses had said this to the people of Israel, they took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death. In this way the people of Israel did what the LORD had commanded Moses.H4872H1696H1121H3478H3318H7043H2351H4264H7275H68H1121H3478H6213H3068H6680H4872