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Leviticus 24:3-13

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3 "Outside * the veil of testimony in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
4 "He shall keep the lamps in order on the 1pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
5 "2Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve * cakes with it; two-tenths * of an ephah shall be in each cake.
6 "You shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the 3pure gold table before the LORD.
7 "You shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be 4a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to the LORD.
8 "5Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD 6continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.
9 "7It shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the LORD'S offerings by fire, his portion forever."
10 Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father * was an Egyptian, went out among the sons of Israel; and the Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel struggled with each other in the camp.
11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the 8Name and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
12 They put him in custody so that 9the command of the LORD might be made clear to them.
13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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Leviticus 24:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 24

This chapter treats of the oil for the lamps, and the ordering of them, Le 24:1-4; of the making of the shewbread cakes, and the setting of them on the table, Le 24:5-9; and an Israelite having blasphemed the name of the Lord, and inquiry being made what should be done to him, he, and so any other person guilty of the same, is ordered to be stoned to death, Le 24:10-16; on occasion of which several laws are repeated concerning killing a man or a beast, or doing injury to any man, Le 24:17-23.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

  • 1. Exodus 25:31; Exodus 31:8; Exodus 37:17
  • 2. Exodus 25:30; Exodus 39:36; Exodus 40:23
  • 3. Exodus 25:24; 1 Kings 7:48
  • 4. Lev 2:2, 9, 16
  • 5. Matthew 12:5
  • 6. Exodus 25:30; Numbers 4:7; 2 Chronicles 2:4
  • 7. Matthew 12:4; Mark 2:26; Luke 6:4
  • 8. Exodus 3:15; Exodus 22:28; Job 2:5, 9; Isaiah 8:21
  • 9. Exodus 18:15; Numbers 15:34

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Lit "from"
  • [b]. Or "prison"
  • [c]. Lit "to declare distinctly to them according to the mouth of the LORD
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