Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 24

This is a scholarly parallel-text edition of Leviticus 24, presenting the same biblical chapter in four columns simultaneously: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers interleaved), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The chapter divides into two distinct legal sections: first, liturgical instructions commanding Aaron to maintain the menorah's perpetual flame and to arrange twelve loaves of showbread in two rows on the tabernacle table, renewed each Sabbath as an eternal covenant. Second, a narrative case law — a man of mixed Israelite-Egyptian parentage blasphemes the divine name during a camp fight, is held in custody while Moses seeks divine guidance, and God then commands he be stoned; this incident triggers a broader legal promulgation covering blasphemy, homicide, injury to persons and animals, and the *lex talionis* ("eye for eye, tooth for tooth"). A distinctive feature is the explicit equality principle closing the legal section: identical law applies to native-born and resident alien alike, grounded in divine authority. The parallel format makes this most useful for textual criticism or comparative translation study, as readers can directly observe where the four traditions diverge — notably the Septuagint adds "and salt" to the frankincense offering (v. 7), a detail absent from the Hebrew and KJV.

Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 24

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