Leviticus 24:5
And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
In Context
4Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.
6And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.
Cross References
Exodus 40:4And put the table inside, placing all the things on it in order; and put in the support for the lights, and let its lights be burning.
1 Samuel 21:4And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
1 Kings 18:31And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name:
1 Chronicles 23:29The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures;
Matthew 12:4How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?
James 1:1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 24:2-10
Laws Concerning the Lamps. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. 3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations. 4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the Lord continually. 5 And… Read the whole commentary →