Leviticus 24:1-9

The Lamps

1 ¹The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.

3 Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

4 He shall arrange the lamps on the ²lampstand of pure gold^[a] before the Lord regularly.

Bread for the Tabernacle

5 “You shall take fine flour and bake twelve ³loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah^[b] shall be in each loaf.

6 And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, ⁴on the table of pure gold^[c] 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 ⁵Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever.

9 And ⁶it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and ⁷they 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 24:1-9 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.

Cross References

• 1. 24:1 Ex. 27:20, 21
• 2. 24:4 Ex. 31:8; 39:37
• 3. 24:5 Ex. 25:30
• 4. 24:6 Ex. 25:23, 24; 1 Kgs. 7:48; 2 Chr. 4:19; 13:11; Heb. 9:2
• 5. 24:8 1 Chr. 9:32; [Num. 4:7; 2 Chr. 2:4]
• 6. 24:9 1 Sam. 21:6; Matt. 12:4; Mark 2:26; Luke 6:4
• 7. 24:9 [ch. 6:16; 8:31; 21:22; Ex. 29:33]

Footnotes

• [a] 24:4 Hebrew 'the pure lampstand'
• [b] 24:5 An 'ephah' was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
• [c] 24:6 Hebrew 'the pure table'