Tabernacle Oil and Bread

24 The Lord spoke to Moses: “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning regularly.(A) Aaron is to tend it continually from evening until morning before the Lord outside the curtain(B) of the testimony(C) in the tent of meeting. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations. He must continually tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand in the Lord’s presence.(D)

“Take fine flour and bake it into twelve loaves;(E) each loaf is to be made with four quarts.[a] Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table(F) before the Lord. Place pure frankincense(G) near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion(H) for the bread and a food offering(I) to the Lord. The bread is to be set out before the Lord every Sabbath day as a permanent covenant(J) obligation on the part of the Israelites. It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, for it is the holiest portion for him from the food offerings to the Lord; this is a permanent rule.”

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Footnotes

  1. 24:5 Lit two-tenths of an ephah

The Lamps

24 (A)The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. He shall arrange the lamps on the (B)lampstand of pure gold[a] before the Lord regularly.

Bread for the Tabernacle

“You shall take fine flour and bake twelve (C)loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah[b] shall be in each loaf. And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, (D)on the table of pure gold[c] before the Lord. And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord. (E)Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever. And (F)it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and (G)they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord's food offerings, a perpetual due.”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 24:4 Hebrew the pure lampstand
  2. Leviticus 24:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
  3. Leviticus 24:6 Hebrew the pure table