This page gives you a set of Bible study questions for Leviticus 24, a chapter that covers the lamp kept burning in the Tent of Meeting, the bread set out on the table before the LORD, and a case of blasphemy that led to a fixed rule about justice. The questions work for a small group, a Sunday class or personal reading. Each section includes a leader’s note so you can guide the discussion without preparing a separate summary.
Leviticus 24 at a Glance
The chapter opens with instructions for the lampstand, which must be kept burning continually with pure olive oil, and for the twelve loaves arranged on the golden table each Sabbath. Both items sit in the sanctuary and are tended by Aaron and his sons. The second half shifts to a public incident: a man of mixed parentage curses the Name during a fight, is held in custody until the LORD gives direction, and is then executed outside the camp. The chapter closes with a general statement of law that applies equally to the native-born and the foreigner.
Moving from worship furniture to a courtroom-like scene is the key to the chapter’s structure. Read it as two movements joined by one theme: the holiness of God’s presence shapes both how the sanctuary is maintained and how the community protects the honor of God’s name.
Observation Questions
Use this set first, before any discussion of meaning. Ask the group to point to the exact verses and say what the text states without adding interpretation. Keep answers tied to the wording on the page so the conversation stays grounded.
Leviticus 24:2-4
2 “Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 4 He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before the LORD continually.
(WEB)
Reading the instructions for the lamp first sets the tone for the chapter. Ask the group to listen for the word “continually,” which anchors the whole section in steady, ongoing faithfulness before God.
Leviticus 24:5-9
5 “You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake. 6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD. 7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD. 8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel. 9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.”
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This passage describes the bread on the golden table and its weekly renewal. Reading it aloud helps people hear how carefully the holy things were prepared and how the priests shared in them.
Leviticus 24:15-16
15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. 16 He who blasphemes the LORD’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
(WEB)
These verses state the seriousness of cursing the LORD’s name and apply the same rule to the native-born and the foreigner. Reading them together helps the group see the gravity of the offense and the breadth of the law.
Leviticus 24:19-20
19 If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.
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This short passage sets out the principle of equal measure in response to injury. Reading it aloud invites a discussion of why the law limits retaliation to what was done, and how that limit still matters.
Leviticus 24:22
You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am the LORD your God.’”
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This verse closes the legal section with a single law for all and grounds it in God’s own identity. Reading it last gives the group a clear point to carry into the closing discussion.
Memory Verse for Leviticus 24
A Closing Prayer for the Group
Father, we come before you as people who want our lives to shine with faithfulness and our words to honor your name. Help us to keep the lamps of our daily duties burning, not out of pressure but out of love for you who dwell among us. Teach us to wait for your direction when anger rises, and to speak about you and about others with honesty and care. Give us one standard of fairness for everyone we meet, because you are the LORD our God and your justice is good. Strengthen what we have learned together today and send us out ready to live it. Amen.
