Leviticus 24:5-9 New English Translation
5 “You must take choice wheat flour[a] and bake twelve loaves;[b] there must be two-tenths of an ephah of flour in[c] each loaf, 6 and you must set them in two rows, six in a row,[d] on the ceremonially pure table before the Lord. 7 You must put pure frankincense[e] on each row,[f] and it will become a memorial portion[g] for the bread, a gift[h] to the Lord. 8 Each Sabbath day[i] Aaron[j] must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion[k] is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant. 9 It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetually-allotted portion[l] from the gifts of the Lord.”
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- Leviticus 24:5 sn See the note on Lev 2:1.
- Leviticus 24:5 tn Heb “and bake it twelve loaves”; KJV, NAB, NASB “cakes.”
- Leviticus 24:5 tn The words “of flour” are supplied in the translation for clarity.sn See the note on Lev 5:11.
- Leviticus 24:6 tn Heb “six of the row.”
- Leviticus 24:7 tn This is not just any “incense” (קְטֹרֶת, qetoret; R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 3:913-16), but specifically “frankincense” (לְבֹנָה, levonah; R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:756-57).
- Leviticus 24:7 tn Heb “on [עַל, ʿal] the row,” probably used distributively, “on each row” (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 395-96). Perhaps the frankincense was placed “with” or “along side of” each row, not actually on the bread itself, and was actually burned as incense to the Lord (cf. NIV “Along [Alongside CEV] each row”; NRSV “with each row”; NLT “near each row”; B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 165). This particular preposition can have such a meaning.
- Leviticus 24:7 sn The “memorial portion” (אַזְכָרָה, ʾazkharah) was normally the part of the grain offering that was burnt on the altar (see Lev 2:2 and the notes there), as opposed to the remainder, which was normally consumed by the priests (Lev 2:3; see the full regulations in Lev 6:14-23 [6:7-16 HT]).
- Leviticus 24:7 sn See the note on Lev 1:9 regarding the term “gift.”
- Leviticus 24:8 tn Heb “In the day of the Sabbath, in the day of the Sabbath.” The repetition is distributive. A few medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac delete the second occurrence of the expression.
- Leviticus 24:8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Aaron) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Leviticus 24:8 tn The word “portion” is supplied in the translation here for clarity, to specify what “this” refers to.
- Leviticus 24:9 tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; NRSV “a perpetual due.”
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