1. The Lord said to Moses,
2. “Command the Israelites to bring to you pure oil from crushed olives. That oil is for the lamps that must burn without stopping.
3. Aaron will keep the light burning in the Meeting Tent before the Lord from evening until morning. This light will be outside the curtain that hangs in front of the Box that holds the Agreement. This law will continue forever.
4. Aaron must always keep the lamps burning on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord.
5. “Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves with it. Use 16 cups of flour for each loaf.
6. Put them in two rows on the golden table before the Lord. Six loaves will be in each row.
7. Put pure frankincense on each row. This will help the Lord remember the gift.
8. Every Sabbath day Aaron will put the bread in order before the Lord. This must be done forever. This agreement with the Israelites will continue forever.
9. That bread will belong to Aaron and his sons. They will eat the bread in a holy place, because that bread is one of the special gifts to the Lord. It is Aaron’s share forever.”
10. There was a son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian father. He was walking among the Israelites, and he started fighting in camp.
11. The Israelite woman’s son began cursing, using the Lord’s name in a bad way, so the people brought him to Moses. (The name of the man’s mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan.)
12. The people held him as a prisoner and waited for the Lord’S command to be made clear to them.