Tabernacle Oil and Bread

24 The Lord spoke to Moses: ² “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning regularly.^{(A) 3} 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. ⁴ He must continually tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand in the Lord’s presence.^(D)

⁵ “Take fine flour and bake it into twelve loaves;^(E) each loaf is to be made with four quarts.^{[a] 6} Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table^(F) before the Lord. ⁷ 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. ⁸ 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. ⁹ 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.”