Leviticus 24:1-9

1 ADONAI said to Moshe,
2 "Order the people of Isra'el to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, to keep lamps burning always.
3 Outside the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting, Aharon is to arrange for the light to be kept burning always from evening until morning before ADONAI ; this is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations.
4 He is always to keep in order the lamps on the pure menorah before ADONAI.
5 "You are to take fine flour and use it to bake twelve loaves, one gallon per loaf.
6 Arrange them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure table before ADONAI.
7 Put frankincense with each row to be an offering made by fire to ADONAI in place of the bread and as a reminder of it.
8 Regularly, every Shabbat, he is to arrange them before ADONAI ; they are from the people of Isra'el, as a covenant forever.
9 They will belong to Aharon and his sons; and they are to eat them in a holy place; because for him they are, of the offerings for ADONAI made by fire, especially holy. This is a permanent law."

Leviticus 24:1-9 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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