(A)Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve [a]cakes with it; [b]two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. And you shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the (B)pure gold table before the Lord. You shall put pure frankincense on each row so that it may be (C)a memorial portion for the bread, an offering by fire to the Lord. (D)Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord (E)continually; it is an everlasting covenant [c]for the sons of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 24:5 I.e., ring-shaped bread loaves
  2. Leviticus 24:5 About 0.13 cubic feet or 0.004 cubic meters
  3. Leviticus 24:8 Lit from

“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.

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