Imamat 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.

Imamat 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.

[24:5]  ¹ sn See the note on Lev 2:1.

[24:5]  ² tn Heb “and bake it twelve loaves”; KJV, NAB, NASB “cakes.”

[24:5]  ³ tn The words “of flour” are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[24:5]  sn See the note on Lev 5:11.

[24:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “six of the row.”

[24:8]  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.

[24:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Aaron) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:8]  ⁷ tn The word “portion” is supplied in the translation here for clarity, to specify what “this” refers to.