Lev 24:5-9 | NETfull | STEP | “You must take choice wheat flour and bake twelve loaves; there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in each loaf,

Leviticus 24:5-9

5 “You must take choice wheat flour ^{▼▼ See the note on Lev 2:1.} and bake twelve loaves; ^{▼▼ Heb “and bake it twelve loaves”; KJV, NAB, NASB “cakes.”} there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in ^{▼▼ The words “of flour” are supplied in the translation for clarity.} ^{▼▼ See the note on Lev 5:11.} each loaf, 6 and you must set them in two rows, six in a row, ^{▼▼ Heb “six of the row.”} on the ceremonially pure table before the Lord. 7 You must put pure frankincense ^{▼▼ This is not just any “incense” (קְטֹרֶת, q^etoret; R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 3:913–16), but specifically “frankincense” (לְבֹנָה, l^evonah; R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:756–57).} on each row, ^{▼▼ Heb “on [עַל, ’al] 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.} and it will become a memorial portion ^{▼▼ The “memorial portion” (אַזְכָרָה, ’azkharah) 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]).} for the bread, a gift ^{▼▼ See the note on Lev 1:9 regarding the term “gift.”} to the Lord. 8 Each Sabbath day ^{▼▼ 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.} Aaron ^{▼▼ Heb “he”; the referent (Aaron) has been specified in the translation for clarity.} must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion ^{▼▼ The word “portion” is supplied in the translation here for clarity, to specify what “this” refers to.} 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 perpetual allotted portion ^{▼▼ Or “a perpetual regulation”; NRSV “a perpetual due.”} from the gifts of the Lord.”