3. Aaron will tend the lamp, which will be inside the meeting tent but outside the inner curtain of the covenant document, from evening until morning before the Lord. This is a permanent rule throughout your future generations.
4. Aaron must continually tend the lights on the pure lampstand before the Lord.
5. You will take choice flour and bake twelve loaves of flatbread, two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.
6. You must place them in two stacks, six in a stack, on the pure table before the Lord.
7. Put pure frankincense on each stack, as a token portion for the bread; it is a food gift for the Lord.
8. Aaron will always set it out before the Lord, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a permanent covenant.
9. It will belong to Aaron and his sons. They must eat it in a holy place because it is the most holy part of their share of the Lord’s food gifts, a permanent portion.
10. The son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father came out among the Israelites. A fight broke out between this half-Israelite and another Israelite man in the camp,
11. during which the half-Israelite blasphemed the Lord’s name and cursed. So he was brought to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, Dibri’s daughter from the tribe of Dan.)
12. He was put under guard until they could determine the Lord’s verdict.
13. Then the Lord said to Moses: