Leviticus 24:5-6

24:5 “You must take choice wheat flour 1  and bake twelve loaves; 2  there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in 3  each loaf, 24:6 and you must set them in two rows, six in a row, 4  on the ceremonially pure table before the Lord.

Leviticus 24:8

24:8 Each Sabbath day 5  Aaron 6  must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion 7  is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.

1 sn See the note on Lev 2:1.

2 tn Heb “and bake it twelve loaves”; KJV, NAB, NASB “cakes.”

3 tn The words “of flour” are supplied in the translation for clarity.

sn See the note on Lev 5:11.

4 tn Heb “six of the row.”

5 tn 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.

6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Aaron) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

7 tn The word “portion” is supplied in the translation here for clarity, to specify what “this” refers to.