Leviticus 24:1-9

The Lamp and the Bread of the Sanctuary

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you ¹clear oil from beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.

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 ²pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

5 "³Then 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 ⁴pure gold table before the LORD.

7 "You shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be ⁵a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to the LORD.

8 "⁶Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD ⁷continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.

9 "⁸It shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the LORD'S offerings by fire, his portion forever."

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. Exodus 27:20, 21
• 2. Exodus 25:31; Exodus 31:8; Exodus 37:17
• 3. Exodus 25:30; Exodus 39:36; Exodus 40:23
• 4. Exodus 25:24; 1 Kings 7:48
• 5. Lev 2:2, 9, 16
• 6. Matthew 12:5
• 7. Exodus 25:30; Numbers 4:7; 2 Chronicles 2:4
• 8. Matthew 12:4; Mark 2:26; Luke 6:4

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "luminary"
• [b]. Lit "ascend"
• [c]. Lit "from"