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1 ADONAI said to Moshe,
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And the Lord said to Moses,
2 "Order the people of Isra'el to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, to keep lamps burning always.
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Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times,
3 Outside the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting, Aharon is to arrange for the light to be kept burning always from evening until morning before ADONAI ; this is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations.
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Outside the veil of the ark in the Tent of meeting; let Aaron see that it is burning from evening till morning at all times before the Lord: it is a rule for ever through all your generations.
4 He is always to keep in order the lamps on the pure menorah before ADONAI.
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Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.
5 "You are to take fine flour and use it to bake twelve loaves, one gallon per loaf.
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And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.
6 Arrange them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure table before ADONAI.
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And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.
7 Put frankincense with each row to be an offering made by fire to ADONAI in place of the bread and as a reminder of it.
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And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
8 Regularly, every Shabbat, he is to arrange them before ADONAI ; they are from the people of Isra'el, as a covenant forever.
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Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.
9 They will belong to Aharon and his sons; and they are to eat them in a holy place; because for him they are, of the offerings for ADONAI made by fire, especially holy. This is a permanent law."
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And it will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to take it for food in a holy place: it is the most holy of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord, a rule for ever.
10 There was a man who was the son of a woman of Isra'el and an Egyptian father. He went out among the people of Isra'el, and this son of a woman of Isra'el had a fight in the camp with a man of Isra'el,
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And a son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel and had a fight with a man of Israel by the tents;
11 in the course of which the son of the woman of Isra'el uttered the Name [Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh] in a curse. So they brought him to Moshe. (His mother's name was Shlomit the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
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And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
12 They put him under guard until ADONAI would tell them what to do.
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And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord.
13 ADONAI said to Moshe,
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And the Lord said to Moses,
14 "Take the man who cursed outside the camp, have everyone who heard him lay their hands on his head, and have the entire community stone him.
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Take the curser outside the tent-circle; and let all in whose hearing the words were said put their hands on his head, and let him be stoned by all the people.
15 Then tell the people of Isra'el, 'Whoever curses his God will bear the consequences of his sin;
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And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.
16 and whoever blasphemes the name of ADONAI must be put to death; the entire community must stone him. The foreigner as well as the citizen is to be put to death if he blasphemes the Name.
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And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.
17 "'Anyone who strikes another person and kills him must be put to death.
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And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.
18 Anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution, life for life.
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And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.
19 If someone injures his neighbor, what he did is to be done to him -
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And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him;
20 break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth -whatever injury he has caused the other person is to be rendered to him in return.
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Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.
21 He who kills an animal is to make restitution, but he who kills another person is to be put to death.
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He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.
22 You are to apply the same standard of judgment to the foreigner as to the citizen, because I am ADONAI your God."
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You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.
23 So Moshe spoke to the people of Isra'el, and they took the man who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him to death. Thus the people of Isra'el did as ADONAI had ordered Moshe. see readings for Parashah 41]
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And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, and they took the man who had been cursing outside the tent-circle and had him stoned. The children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
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