1 Chronicles 23:29

29 The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures;

1 Chronicles 23:29 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 23:29

Both for the shewbread
Also to make and get that ready every week for the priests to set on the shewbread table, when they took off the other that had stood a week, see ( 1 Chronicles 9:32 )

and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes,
and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried;
to deliver out the flour of which these several things were made, see ( 1 Chronicles 9:31 ) , and ( Leviticus 2:1 ) ,

and for all manner of measures and size; as the hin and the ephah,
and the several parts of them for things both liquid and dry, which were in their keeping, and according to which they gave out the proper quantity of oil, and wine, and fine flour, upon occasion.

1 Chronicles 23:29 In-Context

27 So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.
28 Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord,
29 The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures;
30 They had to take their places every morning to give praise and make melody to the Lord, and in the same way at evening;
31 At every offering of burned offerings to the Lord, on Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts, in the number ordered by the law, at all times before the Lord;
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