Leviticus 24:5

5 “Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah^[a] for each loaf.

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Leviticus 24:5 in Other Translations

KJV

5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.

ESV

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

NLT

5 “You must bake twelve flat loaves of bread from choice flour, using four quarts of flour for each loaf.

MSG

5 "Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using about four quarts of flour to a loaf.

CSB

5 "Take fine flour and bake it into 12 loaves; each loaf is to be made with four quarts.

Leviticus 24:5 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 24:5

And thou shalt take fine flour
Of wheat, and the finest of it: and bake twelve cakes thereof;
answerable to the twelve tribes, as the Targum of Jonathan, which were typical of the spiritual Israel of God; two tenth deals shall be in one cake;
that is, two tenth parts of an ephah, which were two omers, one of which was as much as a man could eat in one day of the manna: so that one of these cakes was as much as two men could eat of bread in one day; each cake was ten hands' breadth long, five broad, and seven fingers its horns, or was so high ^F7.

FOOTNOTES:

F7 Menachot, c. 11. sect. 4.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Leviticus 24:5 In-Context

3 Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

4 The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually.

5 “Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.

6 Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

7 By each stack put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the LORD.

Cross References 2

1. S Exodus 25:30; Hebrews 9:2
2. S Leviticus 23:13

Footnotes 1

[a]. That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms