Leviticus 24:1

CHAPTER XXIV

Pure olive oil must be provided for the lamps, 1, 2.

Aaron is to take care that the lamps be lighted from evening

to morning continually, 3, 4.

How the shew-bread is to be made and ordered, 5-8.

Aaron and his sons shall eat this bread in the holy place, 9.

Of the son of Shelomith, an Israelitish woman, who blasphemed

the name, 10, 11.

He is imprisoned till the mind of the Lord should be known, 12.

He is commanded to be stoned to death, 13,14.

The ordinance concerning cursing and blaspheming the Lord,

15,16.

The law against murder, 17.

The lex talionis, or law of like for like, repeated, 18-21.

This law to be equally binding both on themselves and on

strangers, 22.

The blasphemer is stoned, 23.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXIV