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.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:2 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.1 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:2–3 | Symposium 6.4 · Methodius of Olympus | quotation, high confidence | late 3rd century |
| Lev 24:2 | Exposition of Psalm 118 14.11.5 · Ambrose | echo, medium confidence | ca. 386-397 |
| Lev 24:2–4 | Leviticus, lines 200–224 · Cyprianus Gallus | allusion, high confidence | early 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.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:3 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.1 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 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.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:4 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.1 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 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,
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:5 | Eclogae on 1 Kingdoms, column 993 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 220-254 |
| Lev 24:5 | Homilies on Exodus 9.4 · Origen | allusion, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:5 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.3 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:5 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:5 | Catechetical Lecture 22.5 · Cyril of Jerusalem | allusion, high confidence | ca. 350 |
Leviticus 24:6
and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:6 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.3 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:6 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.4 · Origen | allusion, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:6 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.5 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 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.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:7 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.3 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:7 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.5 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 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.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:8 | Homilies on Exodus 9.4 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:8 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.3 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:8 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.5 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 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.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:9 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.3 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:9 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.5 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:9 | Homilies on Leviticus 13.6 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 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.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:10 | Homilies on Leviticus 14.1 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:10 | Homilies on Leviticus 14.2 · Origen | allusion, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:10 | Homilies on Leviticus 14.3 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:10 | Question 102, section 1 · Ambrosiaster | allusion, high confidence | ca. 370–384 |
| Lev 24:10–23 | Leviticus, lines 225–247 · Cyprianus Gallus | allusion, high confidence | early 5th cent. |
| Lev 24:10 | On the Governance of God 1.49 · Salvian of Marseilles | quotation, high confidence | ca. 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.)
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:11 | Homilies on Leviticus 14.1 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:11 | Homilies on Leviticus 14.2 · Origen | allusion, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:11 | On the Governance of God 1.49 · Salvian of Marseilles | quotation, high confidence | ca. 439-451 |
Leviticus 24:12
They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:12 | Homilies on Leviticus 14.1 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:12 | On the Governance of God 1.49 · Salvian of Marseilles | quotation, high confidence | ca. 439-451 |
Leviticus 24:13
Then the LORD said to Moses,
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:13 | Homilies on Leviticus 14.1 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:13–14 | To Quirinus 3.13 · Cyprian of Carthage | quotation, high confidence | ca. 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.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:14 | Homilies on Leviticus 14.1 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:14 | Homilies on Leviticus 14.2 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:14 | Commentary on Matthew 14.19 · Origen | allusion, low confidence | ca. 246–248 |
| Lev 24:14 | On the Governance of God 1.49 · Salvian of Marseilles | quotation, high confidence | ca. 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.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:15 | Homilies on Leviticus 14.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:15 | Letter 96.14 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 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.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:16 | Homilies on Leviticus 14.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:16 | Homilies on Leviticus 16.2 · Origen | allusion, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Lev 24:16 | Preparation for the Gospel 8.7.2 · Eusebius of Caesarea | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 313–324 |
| Lev 24:16 | Demonstration 3.4 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Lev 24:16 | Letter 96.14 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 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.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:20 | Miscellanies 8.9.30 · Clement of Alexandria | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 198–203 |
| Lev 24:20 | Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 33.5.4 · Epiphanius of Salamis | allusion, medium confidence | 374-377 |
| Lev 24:20 | Commonitorium 1.241–270 · Orientius of Auch | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 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.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 24:23 | On the Governance of God 1.50 · Salvian of Marseilles | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 439-451 |