Leviticus 24:6

6 Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

Leviticus 24:6 in Other Translations

6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.

6 And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

6 Place the bread before the LORD on the pure gold table, and arrange the loaves in two stacks, with six loaves in each stack.

6 Arrange them in two rows of six each on the Table of pure gold before God.

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

Leviticus 24:6 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 24:6

And thou shalt set them in two rows
The twelve cakes: six on a row;
not by the side of each other, but six upon one another: upon the pure table;
the shewbread table, so called because overlaid with pure gold, and kept clean and bright, ( Exodus 25:24 ) ; before the Lord;
for this stood in the holy place, in the same place as the candlestick did, which has the same position, ( Leviticus 24:4 ) ; of the mystical and typical sense of these cakes, (See Gill on Exodus 25:30).

Leviticus 24:6 In-Context

4 The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually.

5 “Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.

6 Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

7 By each stack put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the LORD.

8 This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 25:23-30; Numbers 4:7; 1 Kings 7:48