Leviticus 21:1-24:23 1st portion | 2nd portion | 3rd portion | 4th portion | 5th portion | 6th portion | 7th portion | Complete
LESSON: What constitutes a capital offense?
7th Portion
Chapter 24
1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2. Command the children of Israel, and they shall take to you pure olive oil, crushed for lighting, to kindle the lamps continually. 3. Outside the dividing curtain of the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall set it up before the Lord from evening to morning continually. [This shall be] an eternal statute for your generations. 4. Upon the pure menorah, he shall set up the lamps, before the Lord, continually. 5. And you shall take fine flour and bake it [into] twelve loaves. Each loaf shall be [made from] two tenths [of an ephah of flour]. 6. And you place them in two stacks, six in each stack, upon the pure table, before the Lord. 7. And you shall place pure frankincense alongside each stack, and it shall be a reminder for the bread, a fire offering to the Lord. 8. Each and every Sabbath day, he shall set it up before the Lord [to be there] continuously, from the children of Israel an eternal covenant. 9. And it shall belong to Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it is holy of holies for him, among the fire offerings of the Lord, an eternal statute. 10. Now, the son of an Israelite woman and he was the son of an Egyptian man went out among the children of Israel, and they quarreled in the camp this son of the Israelite woman, and an Israelite man. 11. And the son of the Israelite woman pronounced the [Divine] Name and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 12. They placed him in the guardhouse, [until his sentence would] be specified to them by the word of the Lord. 13. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 14. Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and all who heard [his blasphemy] shall lean their hands on his head. And the entire community shall stone him. 15. And to the children of Israel, you shall speak, saying: Any man who blasphemes his God shall bear his sin. 16. And one who blasphemously pronounces the Name of the Lord, shall be put to death; the entire community shall stone him; convert and resident alike if he pronounces the [Divine] Name, he shall be put to death. 17. And if a man strikes down any human being he shall be put to death. 18. And one who slays an animal shall pay for it [the value of] a life for the life [he took]. 19. And a man who inflicts an injury upon his fellow man just as he did, so shall be done to him [namely,] 20. fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he inflicted an injury upon a person, so shall it be inflicted upon him. 21. And one who injures an animal shall pay for it. And one who strikes a person shall be put to death. 22. One law shall be exacted for you, convert and resident alike, for I am the Lord, your God. 23. And Moses told [all this] to the children of Israel. So they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him, and the children of Israel did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
MEDITATION: What harm does blasphemy cause?
Wishing you a good week-end and a good shabbis.
Rabbi Dani'el
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