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.”