Leviticus 24:6

6 And you shall place them [in] two rows, six [to the] row, on the pure [gold] table {before} Yahweh.

Leviticus 24:6 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 24:6

And thou shalt set them in two rows
The twelve cakes: six on a row;
not by the side of each other, but six upon one another: upon the pure table;
the shewbread table, so called because overlaid with pure gold, and kept clean and bright, ( Exodus 25:24 ) ; before the Lord;
for this stood in the holy place, in the same place as the candlestick did, which has the same position, ( Leviticus 24:4 ) ; of the mystical and typical sense of these cakes, (See Gill on Exodus 25:30).

Leviticus 24:6 In-Context

4 On the pure [golden] lampstand he shall arrange for the lamps {before} Yahweh continually.

5 "And you shall take finely milled flour, and you shall bake [with] it twelve ring-shaped bread cakes: each one [shall be] two-tenths [of an ephah].

6 And you shall place them [in] two rows, six [to the] row, on the pure [gold] table {before} Yahweh.

7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each row so that it shall be for the bread as a memorial offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh.

8 {On every Sabbath} he shall arrange it in rows {before} Yahweh continually; [they are] from the {Israelites} [as] an everlasting covenant.

Footnotes

• [a]. Supplied by context and the description of the table in Exod 25:24
• [b]. Literally "to the faces of"