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Leviticus 24:5
Leviticus 24:5 is verse 5 of Leviticus chapter 24, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
Two-tenths of an ephah is approximately 4 dry quarts or 4.4 liters (probably about 5.1 pounds or 2.3 kilograms of flour).
King James Version
And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
World English Bible
“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.
1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel
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Leviticus 24:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come.
4 He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
5 You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
6 and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
7 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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 25:30And place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.
Exodus 40:23He arranged the bread on it before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.
1 Kings 18:31And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, “Israel shall be your name.”
1 Samuel 21:4“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
1 Samuel 21:5David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the equipment of the young men is holy, as it is even on common missions, and all the more at this time.”
Matthew 12:4He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.
Acts 26:7the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to realize as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.
James 1:1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings.