Leviticus 24 - EasyEnglish Bible 2024（EASY）

Chapter 24Rules about the lamps and the table with bread

1The Lord said to Moses,

2‘Command Israel's people to bring you pure oil from olives that they have beaten. Use this oil to burn in the lamps in the Tent of Meeting. This will cause the light to shine all the time.

3Aaron must take care of the lamps that are in front of the curtain in the tent. The Covenant Box stands behind the curtain. Aaron must make sure that the lamps burn all night in front of the Lord, from evening until morning. This rule will continue for ever.

4Aaron must take care of the lamps on the lampstand that is made of pure gold. He must make sure that the lamps always burn there, in front of the Lord.

5Use the best flour to bake 12 round loaves of bread. Use two tenths of an ephah of flour for each loaf.

6Put the loaves on the gold table in front of the Lord. Put them in two rows, with six loaves in each row.

7Put pure frankincense along each row. This incense will burn as a special gift to the Lord instead of the bread.

8Aaron must put new bread on the table every Sabbath day. It shows the covenant that continues for ever between Israel's people and the Lord.

9The bread will belong to Aaron and his sons. They must eat it in a holy place because it is a very holy offering to the Lord. It will always be a part of the offerings that belongs to the priests.’

The Israelites kill a man who said bad things about God

10-11There was a man whose mother's name was Shelomith. She was an Israelite woman, the daughter of Dibri who belonged to the tribe of Dan. The man's father was an Egyptian. The man started to fight against an Israelite man inside the camp. While they were fighting, the man insulted the Lord's name with a curse.

12So the Israelites took hold of the man and they put guards to watch him. They wanted the Lord to show them what they should do.

13The Lord said to Moses,

14‘Take the man who spoke the curse outside the camp. All the people who heard what he said must put their hands on his head. Then all the people must throw stones at him to kill him.

15Warn Israel's people, “If anyone curses me, their God, they deserve their punishment.

16So if someone insults the Lord's name, his punishment must be death. All the people must throw stones at him until he is dead. It does not matter whether he is a foreign person or an Israelite. You must kill anyone who insults the Lord's name.

Rules about fair punishment

17If anyone kills another person, you must punish him with death.

18If someone kills an animal that belongs to someone else, he must pay for it with a living animal. He took away a life, so he must give a life.

19If a man hurts another person, you must punish him as he deserves. Hurt him in the same way that he has hurt the other person.

20If he has broken one of the person's bones, break one of his bones. If he hurt the person's eye, hurt his eye. If he has broken a person's tooth, break his tooth.

21If someone kills an animal that belongs to someone else, he must pay for it with a living animal. But if someone kills another person, you must punish him with death.

22The same rule is for everyone, both Israelites and foreign people who live among you. I am the Lord your God.” ’

23Moses told Israel's people what the Lord had said. They took the man who spoke the curse outside the camp. They threw stones at him until he died. Israel's people did what the Lord had commanded Moses to do.