Leviticus 24:1-9
International Standard Version
The Lamp
24 The Lord spoke to Moses, 2 “Tell the Israelis that they are to bring to you pure oil made from beaten olives in order to keep the lamp burning continuously. 3 Outside the Canopy of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to arrange it continually in the Lord’s presence from evening until morning as an eternal ordinance throughout your generations. 4 He is to arrange the lamps so that they burn continuously on a ceremonially pure lamp stand in the Lord’s presence. 5 Take fine flour and bake twelve cakes using two tenths of a measure[a] for each cake. 6 Arrange them in two rows—six in each row—on a ceremonially pure table in the Lord’s presence. 7 Put pure frankincense on each row for a memorial offering. It will serve as an offering made by fire to the Lord. 8 They are to be arranged every Sabbath day[b] in the Lord’s presence as a gift[c] from the Israelis—an eternal covenant. 9 This gift[d] will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they are to eat it in a sacred place, because it’s the most holy thing for him of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord. This is to be an eternal ordinance.”
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- Leviticus 24:5 The unit of measurement is not specified in MT, but cf. Lev. 5:11, 6:20.
- Leviticus 24:8 Lit. in the day of the Sabbath, in the day of the Sabbath
- Leviticus 24:8 The Heb. lacks as a gift
- Leviticus 24:9 The Heb. lacks This gift
Leviticus 24:1-9
Lexham English Bible
The Sanctuary’s Lamp and Bread
24 Then[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the Israelites[b] that[c] they should bring pure olive oil from beaten olives for the light to present[d] a lamp continually. 3 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. 4 On the pure golden[h] lampstand he shall arrange for the lamps before[i] Yahweh continually.
5 “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. 6 And you shall place them in two rows, six to the row, on the pure gold[j] table before[k] Yahweh. 7 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. 8 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. 9 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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- Leviticus 24:1 Or “And”
- Leviticus 24:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Leviticus 24:2 Or “and”
- Leviticus 24:2 Literally “to cause raising up”; or “set up” (HALOT 830 s.v. 4.d)
- Leviticus 24:3 Literally “from the outside of to”
- Leviticus 24:3 Literally “to the faces of”
- Leviticus 24:3 Literally “a statute of eternity” or “a statute of long duration”
- Leviticus 24:4 Supplied by context and the description of the lampstand in Exod 25:31
- Leviticus 24:4 Literally “to the faces of”
- Leviticus 24:6 Supplied by context and the description of the table in Exod 25:24
- Leviticus 24:6 Literally “to the faces of”
- Leviticus 24:7 Hebrew “the”
- Leviticus 24:7 Or “and”
- Leviticus 24:8 Literally “On the day of the Sabbath on the day of the Sabbath”
- Leviticus 24:8 Literally “to the faces of”
- Leviticus 24:8 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Leviticus 24:8 Or “eternal” or “enduring” or “perpetual”
- Leviticus 24:9 Literally “a holy thing of holy things”
- Leviticus 24:9 Literally “rule of eternity” or “rule of long duration”
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