Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of (A)incense of sweet spices before him, and for (B)the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for (C)burnt offerings morning and evening, (D)on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the Lord our God, as ordained forever for Israel.

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Now I am about to build a temple(A) for the Name of the Lord my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense(B) before him, for setting out the consecrated bread(C) regularly, and for making burnt offerings(D) every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths,(E) at the New Moons(F) and at the appointed festivals of the Lord our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.

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32 Also some of their kinsmen of the Kohathites had (A)charge of the showbread, to prepare it every Sabbath.

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32 Some of the Kohathites, their fellow Levites, were in charge of preparing for every Sabbath the bread set out on the table.(A)

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Bread for the Tabernacle

“You shall take fine flour and bake twelve (A)loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah[a] shall be in each loaf. And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, (B)on the table of pure gold[b] before the Lord. 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. (C)Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever. And (D)it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and (E)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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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 24:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
  2. Leviticus 24:6 Hebrew the pure table

“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