Leviticus 24:5

5 "¹Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve * cakes with it; two-tenths * of an ephah shall be in each 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 the veil of testimony in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

4 "He shall keep the lamps in order on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

5 "Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

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

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

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 25:30; Exodus 39:36; Exodus 40:23