Leviticus 24:1-16

The Lamp and the Bread of the Sanctuary

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you ¹clear oil from beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.

3 "Outside * the veil of testimony in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

4 "He shall keep the lamps in order on the ²pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

5 "³Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve * cakes with it; two-tenths * of an ephah shall be in each cake.

6 "You shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the ⁴pure gold table before the LORD.

7 "You shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be ⁵a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to the LORD.

8 "⁶Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD ⁷continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.

9 "⁸It shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the LORD'S offerings by fire, his portion forever."

10 Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father * was an Egyptian, went out among the sons of Israel; and the Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel struggled with each other in the camp.

11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the ⁹Name and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

12 They put him in custody so that ¹⁰the command of the LORD might be made clear to them.

13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

14 "Bring the one who has cursed outside * * the camp, and let all who heard him ¹¹lay their hands on his head; then ¹²let all the congregation stone him.

15 "You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, '¹³If anyone curses his God, then he will bear his sin.

16 'Moreover, the one who ¹⁴blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

Leviticus 24:1-16 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.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 27:20, 21
• 2. Exodus 25:31; Exodus 31:8; Exodus 37:17
• 3. Exodus 25:30; Exodus 39:36; Exodus 40:23
• 4. Exodus 25:24; 1 Kings 7:48
• 5. Lev 2:2, 9, 16
• 6. Matthew 12:5
• 7. Exodus 25:30; Numbers 4:7; 2 Chronicles 2:4
• 8. Matthew 12:4; Mark 2:26; Luke 6:4
• 9. Exodus 3:15; Exodus 22:28; Job 2:5, 9; Isaiah 8:21
• 10. Exodus 18:15; Numbers 15:34
• 11. Deuteronomy 13:9; Deuteronomy 17:7
• 12. Leviticus 20:2, 27; Deuteronomy 21:21
• 13. Exodus 22:28
• 14. 1 Kings 21:10; Matthew 12:31; Mark 3:28

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "luminary"
• [b]. Lit "ascend"
• [c]. Lit "from"
• [d]. Or "prison"
• [e]. Lit "to declare distinctly to them according to the mouth of the LORD