Leviticus
Chapter 24
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
2Command the sons of Israel, and they shall bring you pure beaten olive oil for the light, to keep a lamp going regularly.
3Outside the curtain of the The stone tablets of God’s agreement, kept in the chest., in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening until morning before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. regularly. It is a lasting A rule that is meant to last. through your generations.
4On the pure lampstand he shall arrange the lamps before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. regularly.
5You shall take fine flour and bake it into twelve loaves. Each loaf shall be two tenths of an A large measure for grain..
6You shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure table before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
7You shall put pure A sweet-smelling tree sap burned as a gift. on the row, and it shall be for the bread as a memorial, a food gift for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
8Every A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. day he shall arrange it before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. regularly. It is from the sons of Israel, a lasting A solemn agreement that binds God and people..
9It shall be Aaron’s and his sons’, and they shall eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy thing for him from God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s food gifts, a lasting due.
10The son of an Israelite woman went out, and he was the son of an Egyptian man, among the sons of Israel. The son of the Israelite woman and an Israelite man fought in the camp.
11The son of the Israelite woman pronounced the Name and cursed. They brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
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- Translation
Naqav et ha-shem is to pronounce the Name, to pierce it by speaking it in the curse. The Name is not written out in this verse. Verse 16 names Yahweh.
12They put him in custody, so that it would be made clear to them by God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s mouth.
13God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
14Bring the one who cursed outside the camp. All who heard shall lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation shall stone him.
15You shall speak to the sons of Israel: Any man who curses his God shall carry his offense.
16Whoever pronounces the name of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. shall be put to death. The whole congregation shall stone him. The A person living in a land that is not their own. and the native alike, when he pronounces the Name, shall be put to death.
17When a man strikes any human person dead, he shall be put to death.
18Whoever strikes an animal’s life dead shall make it good, life for life.
19When a man puts a defect on his fellow, as he did, so it shall be done to him:
20break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he puts a defect on a person, so it shall be put on him.
21Whoever strikes an animal shall make it good, and whoever strikes a person shall be put to death.
22You shall have one judgment, for the A person living in a land that is not their own. and for the native. It shall be so, because I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
23Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. The sons of Israel did as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded Moses.