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24 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, [a]to cause a lamp to burn continually. Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah continually: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations. He shall keep in order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before Jehovah continually.

And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in [b]two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah. And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each [c]row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is [d]on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant. And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire by a perpetual statute.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 24:2 Or, to set up a lamp continually
  2. Leviticus 24:6 Or, two piles, six in a pile
  3. Leviticus 24:7 Or, pile
  4. Leviticus 24:8 Or, from

The Sanctuary’s Lamp and Bread

24 Then[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the Israelites[b] that[c] they should bring pure olive oil from beaten olives for the light to present[d] a lamp continually. Aaron shall arrange for it outside[e] the curtain of the testimony in the tent of assembly from evening until morning before[f] Yahweh continually; it shall be a lasting statute[g] throughout your generations. On the pure golden[h] lampstand he shall arrange for the lamps before[i] Yahweh continually.

“And you shall take finely milled flour, and you shall bake with it twelve ring-shaped bread cakes: each one shall be two-tenths of an ephah. And you shall place them in two rows, six to the row, on the pure gold[j] table before[k] Yahweh. And you shall put pure frankincense on each[l] row so that[m] it shall be for the bread as a memorial offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh. On every Sabbath[n] he shall arrange it in rows before[o] Yahweh continually; they are from the Israelites[p] as an everlasting[q] covenant. And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy thing[r] for him from Yahweh’s offerings made by fire—a lasting rule.”[s]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 24:1 Or “And”
  2. Leviticus 24:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. Leviticus 24:2 Or “and”
  4. Leviticus 24:2 Literally “to cause raising up”; or “set up” (HALOT 830 s.v. 4.d)
  5. Leviticus 24:3 Literally “from the outside of to”
  6. Leviticus 24:3 Literally “to the faces of”
  7. Leviticus 24:3 Literally “a statute of eternity” or “a statute of long duration”
  8. Leviticus 24:4 Supplied by context and the description of the lampstand in Exod 25:31
  9. Leviticus 24:4 Literally “to the faces of”
  10. Leviticus 24:6 Supplied by context and the description of the table in Exod 25:24
  11. Leviticus 24:6 Literally “to the faces of”
  12. Leviticus 24:7 Hebrew “the”
  13. Leviticus 24:7 Or “and”
  14. Leviticus 24:8 Literally “On the day of the Sabbath on the day of the Sabbath”
  15. Leviticus 24:8 Literally “to the faces of”
  16. Leviticus 24:8 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  17. Leviticus 24:8 Or “eternal” or “enduring” or “perpetual”
  18. Leviticus 24:9 Literally “a holy thing of holy things”
  19. Leviticus 24:9 Literally “rule of eternity” or “rule of long duration”