(Exodus 27:20–21)
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And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
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“Command the sons of Israel, and they bring pure oil of beaten olive to you for the lamp, to cause a light to go up continually;
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Aaron arranges it at the outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, from evening until morning before YHWH continually—a continuous statute throughout your generations;
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he arranges the lights on the pure lampstand before YHWH continually.
The Showbread
(Exodus 25:23–30; Exodus 37:10–16)
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And you have taken flour, and have baked twelve cakes with it, two-tenth parts are in one cake,
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and you have set them [in] two rows (six in the row) on the pure table before YHWH,
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and you have put pure frankincense on the row, and it has been with the bread for a memorial, a fire-offering to YHWH.
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On each Sabbath day he arranges it before YHWH continually, from the sons of Israel—a perpetual covenant;
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and it has been for Aaron and for his sons, and they have eaten it in the holy place, for it [is] most holy to him, from the fire-offerings of YHWH—a continuous statute.”
Punishment for Blasphemy
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And a son of an Israeli woman goes out (and he [is] son of an Egyptian man) in the midst of the sons of Israel, and the son of the Israeli woman and a man of Israel strive in the camp,
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and the son of the Israeli woman execrates the Name and reviles; and they bring him to Moses; and his mother’s name [is] Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan;
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and he causes him to rest in confinement —to explain to them by the mouth of YHWH.
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And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
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“Bring out the reviler to the outside of the camp; and all those hearing have laid their hands on his head, and all the congregation has stoned him.
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And you speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When any man reviles his God—then he has borne his sin;
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and he who is execrating the Name of YHWH is certainly put to death; all the congregation certainly casts stones at him; as a sojourner so a native, in his execrating the Name, he is put to death.
An Eye for an Eye
(Matthew 5:38–48)
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And when a man strikes any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.
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And he who strikes a beast repays it, body for body.
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And when a man puts a blemish in his fellow, as he has done so it is done to him;
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breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he puts a blemish in a man so it is done in him.
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And he who strikes a beast repays it, and he who strikes [the life of] man is put to death.
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One judgment is for you; as a sojourner so is a native; for I [am] your God YHWH.”
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And Moses speaks to the sons of Israel, and they bring out the reviler to the outside of the camp, and stone him [with] stone; and the sons of Israel have done as YHWH has commanded Moses.
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