Leviticus 24:5

5 "Also take flour and bake twelve rings of bread. Each ring will contain four quarts of flour.

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 In the tent of meeting, outside the canopy where the words of my promise are, Aaron must keep the lamps lit in the LORD's presence from evening until morning. It is a permanent law for generations to come.

4 Aaron must keep the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand lit in the LORD's presence.

5 "Also take flour and bake twelve rings of bread. Each ring will contain four quarts of flour.

6 Put them in two stacks of six each on the gold table in the LORD's presence.

7 Lay pure incense on top of each stack. The incense on the bread will be a reminder, an offering by fire to the LORD.