Leviticus 24:5-15

5 "Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread with it, using four quarts of flour for each loaf.
6 Put them in two rows on the golden table before the Lord, six loaves in each row.
7 Put pure incense on each row as the memorial portion to take the place of the bread. It is an offering made by fire to the Lord.
8 Every Sabbath day Aaron will put the bread in order before the Lord, as an agreement with the people of Israel that will continue forever.
9 That bread will belong to Aaron and his sons. They will eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the Lord. That bread is their share forever."
10 Now there was a son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian father who was walking among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.
11 The son of the Israelite woman began cursing and speaking against the Lord, so the people took him to Moses. (The mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri from the family of Dan.)
12 The people held him as a prisoner while they waited for the Lord's command to be made clear to them.
13 Then the Lord said to Moses,
14 "Take the one who spoke against me outside the camp. Then all the people who heard him must put their hands on his head, and all the people must throw stones at him and kill him.
15 Tell the people of Israel this: 'If anyone curses his God, he is guilty of sin.

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.

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