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Text -- Leviticus 24:1-17 (NET)
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Regulations for the Lampstand and Table of Bread
24:1 The Lord spoke to Moses :
24:2 “Command the Israelites to bring to you pure oil of beaten olives for the light , to make a lamp burn continually .
24:3 Outside the veil-canopy of the congregation in the Meeting Tent Aaron must arrange it from evening until morning before the Lord continually . This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations .
24:4 On the ceremonially pure lampstand he must arrange the lamps before the Lord continually .
24:5 “You must take choice wheat flour and bake twelve loaves ; there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in each loaf ,
24:6 and you must set them in two rows , six in a row , on the ceremonially pure table before the Lord .
24:7 You must put pure frankincense on each row , and it will become a memorial portion for the bread , a gift to the Lord .
24:8 Each Sabbath day Aaron must arrange it before the Lord continually ; this portion is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant .
24:9 It will belong to Aaron and his sons , and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion from the gifts of the Lord .”
A Case of Blaspheming the Name
24:10 Now an Israelite woman’s son whose father was an Egyptian went out among the Israelites , and the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man had a fight in the camp .
24:11 The Israelite woman’s son misused the Name and cursed , so they brought him to Moses . (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri , of the tribe of Dan .)
24:12 So they placed him in custody until they were able to make a clear legal decision for themselves based on words from the mouth of the Lord .
24:13 Then the Lord spoke to Moses :
24:14 “Bring the one who cursed outside the camp , and all who heard him are to lay their hands on his head , and the whole congregation is to stone him to death.
24:15 Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites , ‘If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin ,
24:16 and one who misuses the name of the Lord must surely be put to death . The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a foreigner or a native citizen ; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death .
24:17 “‘If a man beats any person to death , he must be put to death .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Israel |
Blasphemy |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 1 |
Priest |
STRANGER AND SOJOURNER (IN THE OLD TESTAMENT) |
Curse |
Consecrated Bread |
Oil |
Shewbread |
Punishment |
Trial |
TABERNACLE, A |
SHEWBREAD, THE |
PUNISHMENTS |
Dibri |
ORDER |
Lamp |
STEPHEN |
Shelomith |
MURDER |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Lev 24:2; Lev 24:2; Lev 24:3; Lev 24:3; Lev 24:3; Lev 24:4; Lev 24:5; Lev 24:5; Lev 24:5; Lev 24:5; Lev 24:6; Lev 24:7; Lev 24:7; Lev 24:7; Lev 24:7; Lev 24:8; Lev 24:8; Lev 24:8; Lev 24:9; Lev 24:10; Lev 24:10; Lev 24:11; Lev 24:12; Lev 24:12; Lev 24:14; Lev 24:15; Lev 24:15; Lev 24:16; Lev 24:17
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NET Notes: Lev 24:4 Alternatively, “pure [gold] lampstand,” based on Exod 25:31, etc., where the term for “gold” actually appears (see NAB, NASB, ...
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NET Notes: Lev 24:8 The word “portion” is supplied in the translation here for clarity, to specify what “this” refers to.
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NET Notes: Lev 24:10 Heb “the Israelite man,” but Smr has no article, and the point is that there was a conflict between the man of mixed background and a man ...
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NET Notes: Lev 24:11 The verb rendered “misused” means literally “to bore through, to pierce” (HALOT 719 s.v. נקב qal); it is fro...
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NET Notes: Lev 24:12 The Hebrew here is awkward. A literal reading would be something like the following: “And they placed him in custody to give a clear decision [H...
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NET Notes: Lev 24:14 The words “to death” are supplied in the translation as a clarification; they are clearly implied from v. 16.
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