Leviticus 24

After reading Leviticus 24:

*More instructions from Yahweh: the Israelites are supposed to provide clear olive oil for the lamps outside the tabernacle. Aaron is to tend the lit lamps continually from evening to morning. When does the poor man get to sleep?

*Each sabbath, twelve loaves of bread of the finest flour, in two stacks of six, are to be placed on the golden table in front of the lord. Beside each stack, some incense is to be place to represent the bread and be a food offering to the lord, because Aaron and his sons are going to eat the real bread. It is most holy.

*In the middle of this we are told a story of young man who utters a curse using god's name. This is considered blasphemy. God tells Moses he is to be taken outside the camp and stoned to death by the Israelites. That is the penalty for blasphemy, no matter who does it. The Israelites obeyed.  After that, god gives a rule that anyone who kills another person must be killed, a life for a life.  Does no one see the contradiction here? Oh, that's right, if God tells you to kill the person, then you're okay.

*Next, we are told anyone who injures his neighbor is to receive the same injuries in return, fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The same laws apply to everyone. Even if a person has been injured by stoning? Does the stonee get to return his injuries to the stoner? We all know it didn't work that way. God's laws to kill superseded his laws to refrain from killing. You try to make sense of that.

-After reading the Wikipedia article on stoning, apparently, since there were multiple stoners involved, no one could tell whose stone was the one responsible for the death, so no one was technically guilty. Loophole.