Leviticus 24:5

5 You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts [of an efah] shall be in one cake.

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 of the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aharon keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

4 He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure menorah before the LORD continually.

5 You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts [of an efah] shall be in one cake.

6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure table before the LORD.

7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD.