Leviticus 24:1-9
English Standard Version
The Lamps
24 (A)The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. 3 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. 4 He shall arrange the lamps on the (B)lampstand of pure gold[a] before the Lord regularly.
Bread for the Tabernacle
5 “You shall take fine flour and bake twelve (C)loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah[b] shall be in each loaf. 6 And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, (D)on the table of pure gold[c] before the Lord. 7 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. 8 (E)Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever. 9 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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- Leviticus 24:4 Hebrew the pure lampstand
- Leviticus 24:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
- Leviticus 24:6 Hebrew the pure table
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.
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- Leviticus 24:4 Perhaps pure gold lampstand
- Leviticus 24:5 Approximately four quarts dry
- Leviticus 24:6 Perhaps pure gold table
- Leviticus 24:8 Or from or as a gift of; Heb uncertain
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