Leviticus 24:5

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

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 Aaron is to tend it regularly from evening until morning before the Lord outside the veil of the testimony in the tent of meeting. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

4 He must regularly tend the lamps on the pure [gold] lampstand in the Lord's presence.

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

6 Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure [gold] table before the Lord.

7 Place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread and a fire offering to the Lord.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit two-tenths [of an ephah]