⁵ You shall take bran flour and bake it into twelve cakes,^(A) using two tenths of an ephah of flour for each cake. ⁶ These you shall place in two piles, six in each pile, on the pure gold table before the Lord. ⁷ With each pile put some pure frankincense, which shall serve as an oblation to the Lord, a token of the bread offering. ⁸ Regularly on each sabbath day the bread^(B) shall be set out before the Lord on behalf of the Israelites by an everlasting covenant. ⁹ It shall belong to Aaron and his sons, who must eat it in a sacred place, since it is most sacred,^(C) his as a perpetual due from the oblations to the Lord.

Punishment of Blasphemy.^[a]

⁶ Then the king summoned Jehoiada, who was in charge, and said to him: “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and by the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?”^(A)

⁹ They had it proclaimed throughout Judah and Jerusalem that the tax which Moses, the servant of God, had imposed on Israel in the wilderness should be brought to the Lord.^{(A) 10} All the princes and the people rejoiced; they brought what was asked and cast it into the chest until it was filled.