1. The Lord said to Moses:
2. Order the Israelites to bring you clear oil of crushed olives for the light, so that you may keep the lamp burning regularly.
3. In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that hangs in front of the covenant, Aaron shall set up the lamp to burn before the Lord regularly, from evening till morning, by a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
4. He shall set up the lamps on the pure gold menorah to burn regularly before the Lord.
5. You shall take bran flour and bake it into twelve cakes, using two tenths of an ephah of flour for each cake.
6. These you shall place in two piles, six in each pile, on the pure gold table before the Lord.
7. With each pile put some pure frankincense, which shall serve as an oblation to the Lord, a token of the bread offering.
8. Regularly on each sabbath day the bread shall be set out before the Lord on behalf of the Israelites by an everlasting covenant.
9. It shall belong to Aaron and his sons, who must eat it in a sacred place, since it is most sacred, his as a perpetual due from the oblations to the Lord.
10. A man born of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and in the camp a fight broke out between the son of the Israelite woman and an Israelite man.
11. The son of the Israelite woman uttered the Lord’s name in a curse and blasphemed. So he was brought to Moses—now his mother’s name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan—