Focused Passage
Light, Bread, the Holy Name, and Equal Justice Before the LORD
The LORD commands Israel to bring pure olive oil so Aaron can keep the lamps burning continually before the LORD. The LORD then commands twelve loaves to be placed in two stacks on the pure gold table as a lasting covenant sign and priestly holy food. The chapter then narrates a case in which the son of an Israelite woman and Egyptian father blasphemes the Name. He is held until the LORD's will is made clear. The LORD commands that the blasphemer be taken outside the camp and stoned. The chapter gives principles concerning blasphemy, murder, killing animals, bodily injury, equal retaliation, and one law for native-born and foreigner.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
1Then the LORD said to Moses,
2“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
3Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come.
4He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
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