Leviticuschapter 24

23 verses · ASV

This chapter sends 178 cross-references outward and receives 118 — heaviest partner: Exodus.

Chapter summary

The lampstand, the shewbread, and the blasphemer. Pure oil olive beaten for the light — Aaron to order it before the LORD continually. Twelve cakes of fine flour on the pure table, set in two rows of six, with frankincense on each row; a memorial burned, the bread itself for Aaron and his sons. Then the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian blasphemes the Name; he is put in ward until the LORD's mind is made known; the LORD orders him stoned outside the camp, with every one who heard laying his hand on the head. The lex talionis is restated: life for life, eye for eye — applied to stranger and native alike.

Drafted from Matthew Henry, Calvin, Gill, Clarke, JFB, and Barnes.

Context

Law · Moses — see the Leviticus overview for the book's full setting.

1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

3 Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah continually: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.

4 He shall keep in order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before Jehovah continually.

5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.

6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah.

7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

8 Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.

9 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire by a perpetual statute.