Leviticus 24 in the early church

50 passages quote, allude to, or echo Leviticus 24, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 20 · 23

Leviticus 24:2

“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

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Lev 24:2Homilies on Leviticus 13.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:2–3Symposium 6.4 · Methodius of Olympusquotation, high confidencelate 3rd century
Lev 24:2Exposition of Psalm 118 14.11.5 · Ambroseecho, medium confidenceca. 386-397
Lev 24:2–4Leviticus, lines 200–224 · Cyprianus Gallusallusion, high confidenceearly 5th cent.

Leviticus 24:3

Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come.

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Lev 24:3Homilies on Leviticus 13.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 24:4

He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

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Lev 24:4Homilies on Leviticus 13.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 24:5

You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,

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Lev 24:5Eclogae on 1 Kingdoms, column 993 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 220-254
Lev 24:5Homilies on Exodus 9.4 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:5Homilies on Leviticus 13.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:5Homilies on Leviticus 13.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:5Catechetical Lecture 22.5 · Cyril of Jerusalemallusion, high confidenceca. 350

Leviticus 24:6

and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

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Lev 24:6Homilies on Leviticus 13.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:6Homilies on Leviticus 13.4 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:6Homilies on Leviticus 13.5 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 24:7

And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, a food offering to the LORD.

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Lev 24:7Homilies on Leviticus 13.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:7Homilies on Leviticus 13.5 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 24:8

Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.

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Lev 24:8Homilies on Exodus 9.4 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:8Homilies on Leviticus 13.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:8Homilies on Leviticus 13.5 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 24:9

It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place; for it is to him a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD—his portion forever.”

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Lev 24:9Homilies on Leviticus 13.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:9Homilies on Leviticus 13.5 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:9Homilies on Leviticus 13.6 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 24:10

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

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Lev 24:10Homilies on Leviticus 14.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:10Homilies on Leviticus 14.2 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:10Homilies on Leviticus 14.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:10Question 102, section 1 · Ambrosiasterallusion, high confidenceca. 370–384
Lev 24:10–23Leviticus, lines 225–247 · Cyprianus Gallusallusion, high confidenceearly 5th cent.
Lev 24:10On the Governance of God 1.49 · Salvian of Marseillesquotation, high confidenceca. 439-451

Leviticus 24:11

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

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Lev 24:11Homilies on Leviticus 14.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:11Homilies on Leviticus 14.2 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:11On the Governance of God 1.49 · Salvian of Marseillesquotation, high confidenceca. 439-451

Leviticus 24:12

They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.

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Lev 24:12Homilies on Leviticus 14.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:12On the Governance of God 1.49 · Salvian of Marseillesquotation, high confidenceca. 439-451

Leviticus 24:13

Then the LORD said to Moses,

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Lev 24:13Homilies on Leviticus 14.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:13–14To Quirinus 3.13 · Cyprian of Carthagequotation, high confidenceca. 248–250 (book 3 perhaps later)

Leviticus 24:14

“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

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Lev 24:14Homilies on Leviticus 14.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:14Homilies on Leviticus 14.2 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:14Commentary on Matthew 14.19 · Origenallusion, low confidenceca. 246–248
Lev 24:14On the Governance of God 1.49 · Salvian of Marseillesquotation, high confidenceca. 439-451

Leviticus 24:15

And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.

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Lev 24:15Homilies on Leviticus 14.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:15Letter 96.14 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 370–419

Leviticus 24:16

Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

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Lev 24:16Homilies on Leviticus 14.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:16Homilies on Leviticus 16.2 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 24:16Preparation for the Gospel 8.7.2 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, medium confidenceca. 313–324
Lev 24:16Demonstration 3.4 · Aphrahatquotation, high confidence337-345
Lev 24:16Letter 96.14 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 370–419

Leviticus 24:20

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.

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Lev 24:20Miscellanies 8.9.30 · Clement of Alexandriaallusion, medium confidenceca. 198–203
Lev 24:20Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 33.5.4 · Epiphanius of Salamisallusion, medium confidence374-377
Lev 24:20Commonitorium 1.241–270 · Orientius of Auchallusion, medium confidenceca. 420-450

Leviticus 24:23

Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Lev 24:23On the Governance of God 1.50 · Salvian of Marseillesallusion, medium confidenceca. 439-451