The LORD kept speaking to Moses. He said, "Command the Israelites to bring clear oil pressed from olives, so the lamps may burn continually before me.
Outside the curtain of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps from evening until morning, never letting them go out. This is to be a lasting rule for generations. The pure gold lampstand must shine continuously, its lamps tended every night."
The LORD also said, "Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread. Each loaf is to use two-tenths of an ephah of flour. Place them in two rows of six on the pure gold table before me. Along each row, put a portion of pure incense as a memorial, a symbolic offering to the LORD by fire.
This bread is to be set before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, as a lasting covenant for the Israelites. It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, for it is the most sacred part of their portion of the offerings made by fire."
Then an incident shook the camp. A man, born to an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father, got into a fight with another Israelite. In the heat of anger, he blasphemed the Name of the LORD. His name was Shelomith's son, daughter of Dibri from the tribe of Dan.
The people brought him to Moses and held him in custody, waiting for the LORD's command.
Then the LORD spoke to Moses: "Take the blasphemer outside the camp. Let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly must stone him.
Say to the Israelites: If anyone curses God, he will be held responsible. Anyone who blasphemes the Name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must carry this out—whether alien or native-born.
If anyone takes a human life, they must be put to death. If anyone kills an animal, restitution must be made—life for life.
If a man injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has caused injury, so must he suffer.
Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death. The same law applies to the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD your God."
Moses then spoke to the Israelites. They took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him, carrying out the LORD's command exactly as He had instructed.
The camp watched silently, knowing that the holiness of God demanded justice, and that His Name was to be revered above all else.