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1 The LORD said to Moses,
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The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 “Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.
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Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.
3 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.
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Aaron shall set it up in the tent of meeting, outside the curtain of the covenant, to burn from evening to morning before the Lord regularly; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
4 The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually.
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He shall set up the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord regularly.
5 “Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.
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You shall take choice flour, and bake twelve loaves of it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.
6 Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
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You shall place them in two rows, six in a row, on the table of pure gold.
7 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.
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You shall put pure frankincense with each row, to be a token offering for the bread, as an offering by fire to the Lord.
8 This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.
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Every sabbath day Aaron shall set them in order before the Lord regularly as a commitment of the people of Israel, as a covenant forever.
9 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.”
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They shall be for Aaron and his descendants, who shall eat them in a holy place, for they are most holy portions for him from the offerings by fire to the Lord, a perpetual due.
10 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.
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A man whose mother was an Israelite and whose father was an Egyptian came out among the people of Israel; and the Israelite woman's son and a certain Israelite began fighting in the camp.
11 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.)
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The Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name in a curse. And they brought him to Moses—now his mother's name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan—
12 They put him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
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and they put him in custody, until the decision of the Lord should be made clear to them.
13 Then the LORD said to Moses:
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The Lord said to Moses, saying:
14 “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.
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Take the blasphemer outside the camp; and let all who were within hearing lay their hands on his head, and let the whole congregation stone him.
15 Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible;
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And speak to the people of Israel, saying: Anyone who curses God shall bear the sin.
16 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.
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One who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death; the whole congregation shall stone the blasphemer. Aliens as well as citizens, when they blaspheme the Name, shall be put to death.
17 “ ‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.
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Anyone who kills a human being shall be put to death.
18 Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution—life for life.
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Anyone who kills an animal shall make restitution for it, life for life.
19 Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner:
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Anyone who maims another shall suffer the same injury in return:
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.
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fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to be suffered.
21 Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death.
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One who kills an animal shall make restitution for it; but one who kills a human being shall be put to death.
22 You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.’ ”
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You shall have one law for the alien and for the citizen: for I am the Lord your God.
23 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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Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel; and they took the blasphemer outside the camp, and stoned him to death. The people of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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