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The Bread for the Tabernacle

“You shall take choice flour and bake twelve loaves of it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.(A) You shall place them in two rows, six in a row, on the table of pure gold before the Lord.[a](B) You shall put pure frankincense with each row, to be a token offering for the bread, as an offering by fire[b] to the Lord. Every Sabbath day Aaron shall set them in order before the Lord regularly as a commitment of the Israelites, as a covenant forever.(C) They shall be for Aaron and his descendants, who shall eat them in a holy place, for they are most holy portions for him from the offerings by fire[c] to the Lord, a perpetual due.”(D)

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  1. 24.6 Heb pure table
  2. 24.7 Or a gift
  3. 24.9 Or the gifts

“Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread,(A) using two-tenths of an ephah[a](B) for each loaf. Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold(C) before the Lord. By each stack put some pure incense(D) as a memorial[b] portion(E) to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the Lord. This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly,(F) Sabbath after Sabbath,(G) on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. It belongs to Aaron and his sons,(H) who are to eat it in the sanctuary area,(I) because it is a most holy(J) part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 24:5 That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms
  2. Leviticus 24:7 Or representative

How he entered the house of God, and they[a] ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests?(A)

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  1. 12.4 Other ancient authorities read he ate

He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.(A)

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