Lev 24.1-23 tells us that before leaving the topic of the Mishkan, Yehovah repeats the constant duty of the priests to make sure the Menorah is kept lit perpetually; and the “bread of the faces” is regularly arranged on the Table, which usually took place on the Sabbath; and the penalty for blasphemy; fair compensation.
Holiness is…
v 1…Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
v 2…”Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you clear (pure) olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually (Exo 27.20; a type of the Ruach Ha Kodesh).
v 3…Outside the veil of testimony (the “paroket” that divided the holy place from the holy of holies; in the Temple there will be two veils) in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually (tamid); it shall be a perpetual statute (olam, or until conditions change) throughout your generations.
v 4…He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick (Menorah) before the Lord continually (tamid).
v 5…Then you shall take fine flour (solet) and bake twelve cakes with it (twelve speaks of teaching the word of God; provision; the twelve tribes, and believers), two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake (two omers; each cake was ten handbreadths long, five broad and seven fingers high-Mishnah, Menachot 11.4).
v 6…And you shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure golden table before the Lord (Shulchan shell Zahav).
v 7…And you shall put pure frankincense (levonah) on each row, that it may be a memorial portion (incense symbolized prayer alludes to the prayers of the people for God to provide food in keeping with the covenant) for the bread (to be eaten by the priests), an offering by fire to the Lord (not the bread, but the incense).
v 8…Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord continually (tamid); it is an everlasting covenant (brit olam) for the sons of Israel.
v 9…And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in the holy place; for it is most holy (kodshai kodeshim) to him from the Lord’s offerings by fire, his portion forever (olam, or as long as certain conditions exist).”
v 10…Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian (this will be a picture of the False Messiah here, who will be Jewish and come from Europe; Egypt is a picture of Europe in prophecy), went out among the sons of Israel; and the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel (alludes to the Messiah) struggled with each other on the camp (Gen 3.15; Rev 19.19).
v 11…And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the name (Yehovah; blasphemy is calling something “holy” when it isn’t, or calling something that is “holy” not holy) and cursed (the False Messiah will do this: Rev 13.5-6; 17.3; Dan 7.8-11, 11.12; 2 Thes 2.4). So they brought him to Moses (alluding to the False Messiah being brought before Yeshua when he returns-Rev 19.20; the Azazel goat on Yom Kippur). Now his mother’s name was Shelomith (“peaceful”-the False Messiah will look like a man of peace at first), the daughter of Dibri (“my word or an orator”-the False Messiah will be a person of great speaking skills and deceive many-Dan 11.36; 2 Thes 2.4-5) of the tribe of Dan (many believe the False Messiah may come from the tribe of Dan; they led Israel into Idolatry-Judges 18.30).
v 12…And they put him in custody so that the command of the Lord might be made clear to them (on how to treat a case that violated the third commandment; no punishment was expressed).
v 13…Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
v 14…”Bring the one who has cursed outside the camp (to show he had no part in Israel); and let all who heard him lay their hand on his head (that they all heard him and they were the ones who handed him over, and their testimony is correct), let all the congregation (those that heard him represented the congregation) stone him (like the Azazel goat on Yom Kippur, a type of the False Messiah-Lev 16.21).
v 15…And you shall speak to the sons of Israel saying, ‘If anyone curses his God, then he shall bear his sin.
v 16…Moreover, the one who blasphemes the name of the Lord (Yehovah) shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The alien (ger) as well as the native, when he blasphemes the name (Yehovah), shall be put to death (there is one Torah for Jew and non-Jew).
v 17…And if a man takes takes the life of any human being (murder), he shall surely be put to death (judicially; this speaks of the value of life).
v 18…And the one who takes the life of an animal shall make it good, life for a life (fair compensation).
v 19…And if a man injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him (not to harm him as he has harmed the neighbor, but to pay for his treatment, loss and any other loss the neighbor suffered);
v 20…fracture for fracture, eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, just as he has injured a man, so it shall be rendered to him (make satisfaction and restore the balance in a monetary way for the value; and time; consider the pain he has suffered also).
v 21…Thus the one who kills an animal shall make it good (fair compensation monetarily), but the one who kills a man shall be put to death (no money shall be given).
v 22…There shall be one standard (of law and judgement) for you; it shall be for the stranger (ger) as well as the native (equal justice for all men), for I am the Lord your God (and should be obeyed).’ “
v 24…Then Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought the one who had cursed outside the camp (to show he had no part in Israel) and stoned him with stones. Thus the sons of Israel did, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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