39From the fifteenth day of the seventh month, therefore, after you have gathered up the things that have been born in your land, you shall have seven days of feasts dedicated to the Lord. The first day is a day of complete rest, and the eighth day must also be a day of complete rest. 40On the first day, gather for yourselves the best fruit from the trees, take also palm branches and branches of broad-leaved trees and river willows, and rejoice seven days before the LORD your God. 41This feast dedicated to the Lord is to be celebrated annually and for seven days each time. In every seventh month of every year, let it be an immutable institution in all your generations.

42 For seven days of feast you shall dwell in booths. All the native Israelites are to dwell in booths these days, 43 so that your descendants may know that I dwelt in booths the children of Israel when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God."

44 And Moses told the children of Israel about the feasts established by the Lord.

The Ordinances of the Lampstand and the Sacred Breads

24 Then the Lord said to Moses: 2 "Command that the children of Israel bring you pure oil for illumination, pressed out of olives, so that the lamps may always burn at the appointed time. 3In the Tent of Revelation by the veil behind which is the ark containing the tablets of the Law,945 Aaron is to keep these lamps in order, so that they will always burn before the Lord from dusk to dawn. May this be an immutable institution in all your generations. 4 Every day[946] it will be necessary to take care of the lamps on the lamp of pure gold, the same lamp that stands before the Lord.

5From the best wheat flour bake twelve cakes (each cake is baked with two-tenths of efa[947] flour) 6 and put them in two piles (six in each) on a clean table[948] before the Lord. 7Along each row of cakes put a little pure incense, which will give flavor[949] to the bread; it is a gift to the Lord. 8They are to be placed before the Lord at a certain time, every Sabbath; it is an offering from the children of Israel as a sign of the everlasting covenant. 9These loaves are to belong to Aaron and his sons, and they are to eat them in a holy place. For Aaron and his sons, this is a great holiness, an invariably singled out part of the gifts of the Lord. This is an eternal institution."

Punishment for blasphemy

10–11There was a man in the camp of Israel whose mother was an Israelite and whose father was an Egyptian; his mother's name was Shelomit, the daughter of Divri of the tribe of Dan. He once walked among the children of Israel, and with one of them he quarreled and fought. At the same time, the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed and cursed the Divine Name. Then they brought him to Moses 12 and left him in custody, waiting for the will of the Lord to be revealed to them.

13In speaking to Moses, the Lord said: 14"He who blasphemes must be taken out of the camp; there, all who heard him, let them lay their hands on his head, and after that the whole congregation shall stone him. 15And you say to the children of Israel, "Everyone who blasphemes his God will answer for his sin.

16Whoever blasphemes the Name of the Lord must be put to death. The whole community must certainly stone him. Everyone – whether he is a migrant, whether a native inhabitant – everyone who blasphemes the Divine Name must be put to death.

17In the same way, any person who takes the life of another must be put to death.

18But if someone kills a domestic animal, he will be obliged to give another animal for it, life for life.

19If a man inflicts bodily injury on his neighbor, he must be dealt with in the same way as he did: 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he mutilated a man, the same injury must be inflicted on him. 21Whoever kills a domestic animal must pay for it, but the murderer of a man must be put to death. 22 And all are to be judged alike, both the emigrant and the native. I am the Lord your God.'"

23 And when Moses had said these things to the children of Israel, they brought him out of the camp and stoned him. In this way they fulfilled the command of the Lord given to Moses.