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Hebrew Names Version

Leviticus 24:6

You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure table before the LORD.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Priest;   Shewbread (Showbread);   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;   Shewbread;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Sabbath;   Tabernacle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Offerings and Sacrifices;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shewbread;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ahimelech;   Bread;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Shewbread;   Table;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Shewbread;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bread;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Shewbread;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sacrifice;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Six;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bread;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exodus, the Book of;   Leviticus;   Shewbread, the;   Tabernacle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Altar;   Showbread;  

Parallel Translations

King James Version
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
And you shall place them in two rows, six to the row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.
New Century Version
Put them in two rows on the golden table before the Lord , six loaves in each row.
New English Translation
and you must set them in two rows, six in a row, on the ceremonially pure table before the Lord .
Amplified Bible
"You shall set the bread of the Presence (showbread) in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
"And you shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And thou shalt set them in two rowes, six in a rowe vpon the pure table before the Lorde.
Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
then take them into the sacred tent and lay them on the gold table in two rows of six loaves.
Complete Jewish Bible
Arrange them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure table before Adonai .
Darby Translation
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Put them in two rows on the golden table before the Lord . Six loaves will be in each row.
English Standard Version
And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, on the table of pure gold before the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
And you shall set them in order in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
Good News Translation
Put the loaves in two rows, six in each row, on the table covered with pure gold, which is in the Lord 's presence.
Christian Standard Bible®
Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord.
Literal Translation
And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row on the pure table before Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& thou shalt laye them sixe on a rowe vpo the pure table before the LORDE.
American Standard Version
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou shalt set the in two rowes, sixe on a rowe, vpon the pure table before the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt set them in two rowes, sixe on a row vpon the pure Table, before the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall put them in two rows, each row containing six loaves, on the pure table before the Lord.
English Revised Version
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
and set them in two rows-six per row-on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
of whiche thou schalt sette sexe on euer eithir side, on a clenneste boord bifor the Lord;
Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast set them two ranks (six in the rank) on the pure table before Jehovah,
Update Bible Version
And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure table before Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
World English Bible
You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure table before Yahweh.
New King James Version
You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.
New Living Translation
Place the bread before the Lord on the pure gold table, and arrange the loaves in two stacks, with six loaves in each stack.
New Life Bible
Set them side by side in two rows, six in each row, on the pure gold table before the Lord.
New Revised Standard
You shall place them in two rows, six in a row, on the table of pure gold.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, - upon the pure table, before Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt set them six and six, one against another, upon the most clean table before the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the table of pure gold.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.

Contextual Overview

1 The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 2 Command the children of Yisra'el, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 3 Outside of the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aharon keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 4 He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure menorah before the LORD continually. 5 You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts [of an efah] shall be in one cake. 6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure table before the LORD. 7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD. 8 Every Shabbat day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Yisra'el, an everlasting covenant. 9 It shall be for Aharon and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in two rows: 1 Corinthians 14:40

pure: Exodus 25:23, Exodus 25:24, Exodus 37:10-16, Exodus 39:36, Exodus 40:22, Exodus 40:23, 1 Kings 7:48, 2 Chronicles 4:19, 2 Chronicles 13:11, Hebrews 9:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:30 - General Exodus 35:13 - General Exodus 40:4 - the things that Leviticus 24:5 - General Ezekiel 41:22 - This is

Cross-References

Genesis 24:13
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Genesis 24:16
The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
Genesis 24:20
She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
Genesis 24:22
It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
Galatians 5:1
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Messiah has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Yitzchak and Ya`akov, the heirs with him of the same promise.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt set them in two rows,.... The twelve cakes:

six on a row; not by the side of each other, but six upon one another:

upon the pure table; the shewbread table, so called because overlaid with pure gold, and kept clean and bright, Exodus 25:24;

before the Lord; for this stood in the holy place, in the same place as the candlestick did, which has the same position, Leviticus 24:4; of the mystical and typical sense of these cakes, Leviticus 24:4- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The oil for the lamps of the tabernacle and the meal for the showbread were to be offerings from the Congregation, like the meal for the Pentecostal loaves, Leviticus 23:17. It appears that the responsibility of keeping up the lights rested on the high priest, but the actual service might be performed, on ordinary occasions, by the common priests. Compare margin reference.

Leviticus 24:5

Each cake or loaf of unleavened bread Leviticus 2:11 was to contain about six pounds and a quarter (see Exodus 29:40 note) of fine flour. The material was the same, both in quality and in quantity, with that of each one of the wave-loaves of Pentecost Leviticus 23:17. In the service of the temple the preparation and arrangement of the cakes was committed to the Levites 1Ch 9:32; 1 Chronicles 23:29; 2 Chronicles 13:11.

Leviticus 24:6

Two rows, six on a row - Rather, two piles, six in a pile. On the table, see Exodus 25:23-30.

Leviticus 24:7

The frankincense as a memorial (like the handful of the meat-offering, Leviticus 2:2), was most likely cast upon the altar-fire as “an offering made by fire unto the Lord,” when the bread was removed from the table on the Sabbath-day Leviticus 24:8; 1 Samuel 21:6. The frankincense was put into small gold cups, one of which was placed upon each pile of bread. (See Exodus 25:23-30 note.)

Leviticus 24:8

Being taken from the children of Israel - Each cake represented the offering of a tribe.

Leviticus 24:9

See Leviticus 2:3 note. It could have been only by a stretch of the law that Ahimelech gave a portion of the showbread to David and his men, on the ground that they were free from ceremonial defilement. 1 Samuel 21:4-6; Matthew 12:4.

The showbread was a true meat-offering (see Exodus 25:29). The special form in which it was offered, especially in its being brought into the tabernacle and in its consisting of twelve loaves, distinguish it as an offering made on behalf of the nation.


 
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