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The Third Book of Moses: Leviticus

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- Kapitel 24 -

(Exodus 27:20–21)
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Then the LORD said to Moses,
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Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
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Outside the veil of the Testimony (a) 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.
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He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

The Showbread

(Exodus 25:23–30; Exodus 37:10–16)
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You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,(b)
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and set them in two rowssix per rowon the table of pure gold before the LORD.
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And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
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Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.
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It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place; for it is to him a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORDhis portion forever.”

Punishment for Blasphemy

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Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.
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The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
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They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
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Then the LORD said to Moses,
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Take the blasphemer (c) outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.
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And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.
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Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

An Eye for an Eye

(Matthew 5:38–48)
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And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
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Whoever kills an animal must make restitutionlife for life.
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If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:
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fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.(d) Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.
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Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
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You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
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Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Fußnoten

(a)24:3 The Testimony refers to the stone tablets in the ark of the covenant inscribed with the Ten Commandments.
(b)24:5 Two-tenths of an ephah is approximately 4 dry quarts or 4.4 liters (probably about 5.1 pounds or 2.3 kilograms of flour).
(c)24:14 Literally the one who cursed
(d)24:20 Cited in Matthew 5:38
(Exodus 27:20–21)
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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
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Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
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He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before the LORD continually.

The Showbread

(Exodus 25:23–30; Exodus 37:10–16)
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You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah(a) shall be in one cake.
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You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.
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You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD.
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Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel.
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It 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 the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.”

Punishment for Blasphemy

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The 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.
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The 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.
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They put him in custody until the LORD’s will should be declared to them.
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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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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.
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You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
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He who blasphemes the LORD’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.

An Eye for an Eye

(Matthew 5:38–48)
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“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
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He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.
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If anyone injures his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:
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fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone.
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He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
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You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am the LORD your God.’”
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Moses 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 the LORD commanded Moses.

Fußnoten

(a)24:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel