New English Translation

Leviticus 24:6-15 New English Translation (NET)

6. and you must set them in two rows, six in a row, on the ceremonially pure table before the Lord.

7. You must put pure frankincense on each row, and it will become a memorial portion for the bread, a gift to the Lord.

8. Each Sabbath day Aaron must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.

9. It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion from the gifts of the Lord.”

10. Now an Israelite woman’s son whose father was an Egyptian went out among the Israelites, and the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man had a fight in the camp.

11. The Israelite woman’s son misused the Name and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

12. So they placed him in custody until they were able to make a clear legal decision for themselves based on words from the mouth of the Lord.

13. Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

14. “Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and all who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation is to stone him to death.

15. Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,