Leviticus 24:5-9

Bread for the Tabernacle

5 "You shall take fine flour and bake twelve ¹loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah^[a] shall be in each loaf.

6 And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, ²on the table of pure gold^[b] before the LORD.

7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the LORD.

8 ³Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the LORD regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever.

9 And ⁴it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and ⁵they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the LORD's food offerings, a perpetual due."

Leviticus 24:5-9 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.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 25:30
• 2. Exodus 25:23, 24; 1 Kings 7:48; 2 Chronicles 4:19; 2 Chronicles 13:11; Hebrews 9:2
• 3. 1 Chronicles 9:32; [Numbers 4:7; 2 Chronicles 2:4]
• 4. 1 Samuel 21:6; Matthew 12:4; Mark 2:26; Luke 6:4
• 5. [Leviticus 6:16; Leviticus 8:31; Leviticus 21:22; Exodus 29:33]

Footnotes

• [a]. An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
• [b]. Hebrew the pure table