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Literal Standard Version

Leviticus 24:7

and you have put pure frankincense on the row, and it has been with the bread for a memorial, a fire-offering to YHWH.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Frankincense;   Priest;   Shewbread (Showbread);   Thompson Chain Reference - Frankincense;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;   Shewbread;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Incense;   Sabbath;   Tabernacle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Offerings and Sacrifices;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Frankincense;   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;   Eucharist;   Frankincense;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Incense;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Salt;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Shewbread;   Tabernacle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lord's Supper (Ii);   Shewbread;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Frankincense,;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Shewbread;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bread;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exodus, the Book of;   Frankincense;   Leviticus;   Lord's Supper (Eucharist);   Memorial;   Shewbread, the;   Tabernacle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Incense;   Salt;   Showbread;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
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.
King James Version
And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
And you shall put pure frankincense on each row so that it shall be for the bread as a memorial offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh.
New Century Version
Put pure incense on each row as the memorial portion to take the place of the bread. It is an offering made by fire to the Lord .
New English Translation
You must put pure frankincense on each row, and it will become a memorial portion for the bread, a gift to the Lord .
Amplified Bible
"You shall put pure frankincense [in two censers, one] beside each row, so that it may be with the bread as a memorial portion, an offering by fire to the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
"You shall put pure frankincense on each row so that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, an offering by fire to the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt also put pure incense vpon the rowes, that in steade of the bread it may bee for a remembrance, and an offering made by fire to the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
Alongside each row put some pure incense that will be sent up by fire in place of the bread as an offering to me.
Complete Jewish Bible
Put frankincense with each row to be an offering made by fire to Adonai in place of the bread and as a reminder of it.
Darby Translation
And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row; and it shall be a bread of remembrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Put pure frankincense on each row. This will help the Lord remember the gift.
English Standard Version
And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
And you shall put pure frankincense upon each row before the LORD, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Good News Translation
Put some pure incense on each row, as a token food offering to the Lord to take the place of the bread.
Christian Standard Bible®
Place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread and a fire offering to the Lord.
Literal Translation
And you shall put pure frankincense on the row, and it shall be the bread of a memorial, a fire offering to Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And vpon the same shalt thou laye pure frankencense, that it maye be bred of remembraunce for an offerynge vnto ye LORDE.
American Standard Version
And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And put pure frankensence vpon the rowes, that they may be bread of remembraunce, and an offeryng made by fire vnto the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt put pure frankincense with each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial-part, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt put pure frankincense vpon ech row, that it may bee on the bread for a memorial, euen an offering made by fire vnto the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall put on each row pure frankincense and salt; and these things shall be for loaves for a memorial, set forth before the Lord.
English Revised Version
And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thou schalt sette clereste encense on tho looues, that the looues be in to mynde of offryng of the Lord;
Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast put on the rank pure frankincense, and it hath been to the bread for a memorial, a fire-offering to Jehovah.
Update Bible Version
And 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 Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each] row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, [even] an offering made by fire to the LORD.
World English Bible
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 Yahweh.
New King James Version
And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
New Living Translation
Put some pure frankincense near each stack to serve as a representative offering, a special gift presented to the Lord .
New Life Bible
Put pure, sweet-smelling spices on each row to go with the bread as something to be remembered. It is a gift by fire to the Lord.
New Revised Standard
You shall put pure frankincense with each row, to be a token offering for the bread, as an offering by fire to the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And thou shalt put upon each row pure frankincense, - so shall it belong unto the bread as a memorial, an altar-flame unto Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt put upon them the clearest frankincense, that the bread may be for a memorial of the oblation of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
And you shall put pure frankincense with each row, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion to be offered by fire to the LORD.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to the LORD.

Contextual Overview

1And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying, 2"Command the sons of Israel, and they bring pure oil of beaten olive to you for the lamp, to cause a light to go up continually; 3Aaron arranges it at the outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, from evening until morning before YHWH continually—a continuous statute throughout your generations; 4he arranges the lights on the pure lampstand before YHWH continually. 5And you have taken flour, and have baked twelve cakes with it, two-tenth parts are in one cake, 6and you have set them [in] two rows (six in the row) on the pure table before YHWH, 7and you have put pure frankincense on the row, and it has been with the bread for a memorial, a fire-offering to YHWH.8On each Sabbath day he arranges it before YHWH continually, from the sons of Israel—a perpetual covenant; 9and it has been for Aaron and for his sons, and they have eaten it in the holy place, for it [is] most holy to him, from the fire-offerings of YHWH—a continuous statute."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

pure: Leviticus 2:2, Ephesians 1:6, Hebrews 7:25, Revelation 8:3, Revelation 8:4

the bread: John 6:35, John 6:51

a memorial: Genesis 9:16, Exodus 12:14, Exodus 13:9, Exodus 17:14, Acts 10:4, Acts 10:31, 1 Corinthians 11:23-25

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:12 - for a memorial Exodus 30:34 - frankincense Leviticus 24:5 - General Nehemiah 2:20 - memorial

Cross-References

Genesis 13:15
for the whole of the land which you are seeing, I give it to you and to your Seed for all time.
Genesis 15:18
In that day has YHWH made with Abram a covenant, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the River of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River,
Genesis 17:8
and I have given to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a continuous possession, and I have become their God."
Genesis 24:1
And Abraham [is] old, he has entered into days, and YHWH has blessed Abraham in all [things];
Genesis 24:3
and I cause you to swear by YHWH, God of the heavens and God of the earth, that you do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling;
Genesis 24:4
but to my land and to my family you go, and have taken a wife for my son, for Isaac."
Genesis 24:5
And the servant says to him, "It may be the woman is not willing to come after me to this land; do I at all cause your son to return to the land from where you came out?"
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham says to him, "Take heed to yourself lest you cause my son to return there;
Genesis 24:7
YHWH, God of the heavens, who has taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who has spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, To your seed I give this land, He sends His messenger before you, and you have taken a wife for my son from there;
Genesis 24:16
and the young person [is] of very good appearance, a virgin, and a man has not known her; and she goes down to the fountain, and fills her pitcher, and comes up.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each] row,.... Two cups of frankincense, in each of which was an handful of it, and which were set by each row of the cakes, as Jarchi observes:

that it may be on the bread for a memorial; or "for the bread", instead of it, for a memorial of it; that being to be eaten by the priests, and this to be burned on the altar to the Lord, as follows:

[even] an offering made by fire unto the Lord; not the bread that was after a time taken away, and eaten by the priests, but the frankincense.

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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