Leviticus 24:5

The Showbread

5 You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf, ^{[a] 1}

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Menachot, c. 11. sect. 4.

Leviticus 24:5 In-Context

3 Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come.

4 He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

5 You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,

6 and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

7 And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, a food offering to the LORD.

Cross References

• 1. (Exodus 25:23–30; Exodus 37:10–16)

Footnotes

• [a] Two-tenths of an ephah is approximately 4 dry quarts or 4.4 liters (probably about 5.1 pounds or 2.3 kilograms of flour).