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Leviticus 24
Highlighted words differ from the WEB. Most differences are matters of wording, style or the age of the English, not of meaning; a few reflect different manuscripts.
- 1WEBYahweh spoke to Moses, saying,KJVAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- 2WEB“Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.KJVCommand the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
- 3WEBOutside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.KJVWithout the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
- 4WEBHe shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before Yahweh continually.KJVHe shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
- 5WEB“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.KJVAnd thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
- 6WEBYou shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.KJVAnd thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
- 7WEBYou shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.KJVAnd thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- 8WEBEvery Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel.KJVEvery sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
- 9WEBIt shall be for Aaron and his sons. They shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute.”KJVAnd it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
- 10WEBThe son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.KJVAnd the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
- 11WEBThe son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.KJVAnd the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
- 12WEBThey put him in custody until Yahweh’s will should be declared to them.KJVAnd they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
- 13WEBYahweh spoke to Moses, saying,KJVAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- 14WEB“Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.KJVBring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
- 15WEBYou shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.KJVAnd thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
- 16WEBHe who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.KJVAnd he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
- 17WEB“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.KJVAnd he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
- 18WEBHe who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.KJVAnd he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
- 19WEBIf anyone injures his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:KJVAnd if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
- 20WEBfracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone.KJVBreach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
- 21WEBHe who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.KJVAnd he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
- 22WEBYou shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’”KJVYe shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.
- 23WEBMoses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.KJVAnd Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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- King James Version (1769 text), public domain outside the United Kingdom, where Crown letters patent apply.