Leviticus 24:2   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

"Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.

Leviticus 24:3   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

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.

Leviticus 24:6   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the Lord.

Leviticus 24:7   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

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.

Leviticus 24:8   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.

Leviticus 24:9   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

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."

Leviticus 24:10   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

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.

Leviticus 24:11   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

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.)

Leviticus 24:12   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

They put him in custody until the will of the Lord should be made clear to them.

Leviticus 24:13   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

Then the Lord said to Moses:

Leviticus 24:14   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

"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.

Leviticus 24:15   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

Say to the Israelites: 'Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible;

Leviticus 24:16   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

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.

Leviticus 24:18   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

Anyone who takes the life of someone's animal must make restitution-life for life.

Leviticus 24:19   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner:

Leviticus 24:20   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.

Leviticus 24:22   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the Lord your God.' "

Leviticus 24:23   (Read all of Leviticus 24)

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.

Leviticus 25:1   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

The Lord said to Moses at Mount Sinai,

Leviticus 25:2   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the Lord.

Leviticus 25:3   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.

Leviticus 25:4   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.

Leviticus 25:6   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you-for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you,

Leviticus 25:8   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'Count off seven sabbath years-seven times seven years-so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years.