Leviticus 24:1-23
Olive Oil and Bread Set Before The Lord
1The Lord Said to Moses, 2“Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives
for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually. 3Outside the curtain that shields the Ark of the Covenant Law in
the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before The Lord from evening till morning,
continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. 4The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before The Lord must be tended continually.
5“Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using
two-tenths of an ephaha for each loaf.6Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of
pure gold before The Lord. 7By each stack put some pure incense as a memorialb portion to represent the bread and to be a
food offering presented to The Lord. 8This bread is to be set out before The Lord regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on
behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. 9It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in the
sanctuary area, because it is a most holy part of their perpetual share of the
food offerings presented to The Lord.”
A Blasphemer Put to Death
10Now 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. 11The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed The Name with a curse;
so they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of
Dibri the Danite.) 12They put him in custody until The Will of The Lord should be made clear to them.
13Then The Lord Said to Moses: 14“Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him
are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him. 15Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses their GOD will be held
responsible; 16anyone who blasphemes The Name of The Lord is to be put to death. The entire
assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme
The Name they are to be put to death.
17“ ‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to
death. 18Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make
restitution—life for life. 19 Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth
for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. 21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills
a human being is to be put to death. 22You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the
native-born. I AM The Lord your GOD.’ ”
23 Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside
the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did As The Lord Commanded Moses.
Punishment by Stoning
Stoning, or lapidation,
is a form of capital
punishment whereby a group
throws stones at a person
until death ensues. No individual among the group can be identified as the one
who kills the subject, yet everyone involved plainly bears some degree of moral
culpability. This is in contrast to the case of a judicial executioner. Slower than
other forms of execution, stoning is a form of execution by torture.
·
Zechariah ben Jehoiada, who denounced the people's disobedience to the
commandments (2 Chronicles
24:20–21, perhaps also Matthew
23:35)
In the Talmud
People
who were almost stoned
·
The Gospel
of John chapter 8 gives the story
of JESUS and the woman
taken in adultery, in which people wanted to stone
the woman.
·
Paul
of Tarsus, stoned at Lystra at
the instigation of Jews. He was left for dead, but then revived. (Acts
14:19)
The Cases of
Punishment by Stoning In the Bible
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