Leviticus 24:1-6

1 The Lord said to Moses,
2 "Command the peo- ple of Israel to bring you pure oil from crushed olives. That oil is for the lamps so that these lamps may never go out.
3 Aaron will keep the lamps burning in the Meeting Tent from evening until morning before the Lord; this is in front of the curtain of the Ark of the Agreement. This law will continue from now on.
4 Aaron must always keep the lamps burning on the lampstands of pure gold before the Lord.
5 "Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread with it, using four quarts of flour for each loaf.
6 Put them in two rows on the golden table before the Lord, six loaves in each row.

Leviticus 24:1-6 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.

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