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The LORD said to Moses,

The Lord said to Moses,

"Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.

"Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.

Outside the curtain of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the Lord from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually.

The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord must be tended continually.

"Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.

"Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.

Set them in two rows, six in each row, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the Lord.

Along each row put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be an offering made to the LORD by fire.

By each stack put some pure incense as a memorial portion 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, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.

This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.

It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy part of their regular share of the offerings made to the LORD by fire." A Blasphemer Stoned

It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in the sanctuary area, because it is a most holy part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord ."