Leviticus 24:5-15

5 You will take choice flour and bake twelve loaves of flatbread, two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.
6 You must place them in two stacks, six in a stack, on the pure table before the LORD.
7 Put pure frankincense on each stack, as a token portion for the bread; it is a food gift for the LORD.
8 Aaron will always set it out before the LORD, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a permanent covenant.
9 It will belong to Aaron and his sons. They must eat it in a holy place because it is the most holy part of their share of the LORD's food gifts, a permanent portion.

Assault and blasphemy

10 The son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father came out among the Israelites. A fight broke out between this half-Israelite and another Israelite man in the camp,
11 during which the half-Israelite blasphemed the Lord's name and cursed. So he was brought to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, Dibri's daughter from the tribe of Dan.)
12 He was put under guard until they could determine the LORD's verdict.
13 Then the LORD said to Moses:
14 Take the one who cursed outside the camp. All who heard him will press their hands on his head. Then the whole community will stone him.
15 Tell the Israelites: Anyone who curses God will be liable to punishment.

Leviticus 24:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 24

This chapter treats of the oil for the lamps, and the ordering of them, Le 24:1-4; of the making of the shewbread cakes, and the setting of them on the table, Le 24:5-9; and an Israelite having blasphemed the name of the Lord, and inquiry being made what should be done to him, he, and so any other person guilty of the same, is ordered to be stoned to death, Le 24:10-16; on occasion of which several laws are repeated concerning killing a man or a beast, or doing injury to any man, Le 24:17-23.

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. Approximately four quarts dry
  • [b]. Perhaps pure gold table
  • [c]. Or from or as a gift of; Heb uncertain
  • [d]. Or Israelite woman’s son; also in 24:11
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