Leviticus 24:1-9

Common English Bible

The sanctuary’s lamp and bread

24 The Lord said to Moses: ² Command the Israelites to bring pure, pressed olive oil to you for the lamp, to keep a light burning constantly. ³ Aaron will tend the lamp, which will be inside the meeting tent but outside the inner curtain of the covenant document, from evening until morning before the Lord. This is a permanent rule throughout your future generations. ⁴ Aaron must continually tend the lights on the pure lampstand^[a] before the Lord.

⁵ You will take choice flour and bake twelve loaves of flatbread, two-tenths of an ephah^[b] for each loaf. ⁶ You must place them in two stacks, six in a stack, on the pure table^[c] before the Lord. ⁷ Put pure frankincense on each stack, as a token portion for the bread; it is a food gift for the Lord. ⁸ Aaron will always set it out before the Lord, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of^[d] the Israelites, as a permanent covenant. ⁹ It will belong to Aaron and his sons. They must eat it in a holy place because it is the most holy part of their share of the Lord’s food gifts, a permanent portion.