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1 ADONAI said to Moshe,
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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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“Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.
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 curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
4 He is always to keep in order the lamps on the pure menorah before ADONAI.
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The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually.
5 "You are to take fine flour and use it to bake twelve loaves, one gallon per loaf.
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“Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.
6 Arrange them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure table before ADONAI.
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Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold 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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By each stack put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented 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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This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.
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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It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in the sanctuary area, because it is a most holy part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the LORD.”
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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Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.
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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The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.)
12 They put him under guard until ADONAI would tell them what to do.
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They put him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
13 ADONAI said to Moshe,
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Then 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 blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.
15 Then tell the people of Isra'el, 'Whoever curses his God will bear the consequences of his sin;
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Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible;
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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anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD is to be put to death. The entire assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme the Name they are to be put to death.
17 "'Anyone who strikes another person and kills him must be put to death.
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“ ‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is 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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Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution—life for life.
19 If someone injures his neighbor, what he did is to be done to him -
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Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner:
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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fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.
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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Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being is to 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 the foreigner and the native-born. 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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Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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