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Leviticus 24:8

Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Priest;   Sabbath;   Shewbread (Showbread);   Thompson Chain Reference - Covenant;   Covenants and Vows;   Everlasting;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;   Shewbread;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sabbath;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Offerings and Sacrifices;   Priest, Priesthood;   Sabbath;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Priest;   Shewbread;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ahimelech;   Bread;   Covenant;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Shewbread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Incense;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Shewbread;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Table of Showbread;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Shewbread;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bread;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, in the Old Testament;   Exodus, the Book of;   Leviticus;   Order;   Shewbread, the;   Tabernacle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ahimelech;   Angelology;   Bread;   Incense;   Peshiṭta;   Sabbath;   Showbread;   Trespass;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Every Shabbat day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Yisra'el, an everlasting covenant.
King James Version
Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
Lexham English Bible
On every Sabbath he shall arrange it in rows before Yahweh continually; they are from the Israelites as an everlasting covenant.
New Century Version
Every Sabbath day Aaron will put the bread in order before the Lord , as an agreement with the people of Israel that will continue forever.
New English Translation
Each Sabbath day Aaron must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.
Amplified Bible
"Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange the showbread before the LORD continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the Israelites.
New American Standard Bible
"Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Euery Sabbath hee shall put them in rowes before the Lord euermore, receiuing them of the children of Israel for an euerlasting couenant.
Legacy Standard Bible
Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.
Contemporary English Version
Aaron must lay fresh loaves on the table each Sabbath, and priests in all generations must continue this practice as part of Israel's agreement with me.
Complete Jewish Bible
Regularly, every Shabbat, he is to arrange them before Adonai ; they are from the people of Isra'el, as a covenant forever.
Darby Translation
Every sabbath day he shall arrange it before Jehovah continually, on the part of the children of Israel: [it is] an everlasting covenant.
Easy-to-Read Version
Every Sabbath day Aaron will put the bread in order before the Lord . This must be done forever. This agreement with the Israelites will continue forever.
English Standard Version
Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever.
George Lamsa Translation
On the sabbath day Aaron shall set them in order before the LORD continually, as a gift from the children of Israel for an everlasting covenant.
Good News Translation
Every Sabbath, for all time to come, the bread must be placed in the presence of the Lord . This is Israel's duty forever.
Christian Standard Bible®
The bread is to be set out before the Lord every Sabbath day as a permanent covenant obligation on the part of the Israelites.
Literal Translation
On each sabbath day he shall arrange it before Jehovah continually, from the sons of Israel, a never ending covenant.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euery Sabbath shal he prepare the before the LORDE allwaye, and receaue them of the children of Israel for an euerlastinge couenaunt.
American Standard Version
Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.
Bible in Basic English
Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euery Sabbath he shall put them in rowes before the Lorde euermore, of the chyldren of Israel shall they be offered for an euerlastyng couenaunt.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is from the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.
King James Version (1611)
Euery Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an euerlasting couenant.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
On the sabbath-day they shall be set forth before the Lord continually before the children of Israel, for an everlasting covenant.
English Revised Version
Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
bi ech sabat tho schulen be chaungid bifor the Lord, and schulen be takun of the sones of Israel bi euerlastynge boond of pees;
Young's Literal Translation
`On each sabbath-day he arrangeth it before Jehovah continually, from the sons of Israel -- a covenant age-during;
Update Bible Version
Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually; it is on the behalf of the sons of Israel, an everlasting covenant.
Webster's Bible Translation
Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
World English Bible
Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.
New King James Version
Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
New Living Translation
Every Sabbath day this bread must be laid out before the Lord as a gift from the Israelites; it is an ongoing expression of the eternal covenant.
New Life Bible
Every Day of Rest he will set it before the Lord all the time. It is a Law forever for the people of Israel.
New Revised Standard
Every sabbath day Aaron shall set them in order before the Lord regularly as a commitment of the people of Israel, as a covenant forever.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Sabbath day by sabbath day, shall he order it before Yahweh continually, - from the sons of Israel as an age-abiding covenant:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord: being received of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
Revised Standard Version
Every sabbath day Aaron shall set it in order before the LORD continually on behalf of the people of Israel as a covenant for ever.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.

Contextual Overview

1Then the LORD said to Moses, 2"Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually. 3Outside 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 perpetual statute for the generations to come. 4He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually. 5You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf, 6and set them in two rows-six per row-on the table of pure gold before the LORD. 7And 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. 8Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.9It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place; for it is to him a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD-his portion forever."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 4:7, 1 Chronicles 9:32, 1 Chronicles 23:29, 2 Chronicles 2:4, Nehemiah 10:33, Matthew 12:3-5

Reciprocal: Exodus 40:4 - the things that Leviticus 21:22 - both

Cross-References

Genesis 24:4
but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac."
Genesis 24:6
Abraham replied, "Make sure that you do not take my son back there.
Genesis 24:17
So the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please let me have a little water from your jar."
Genesis 24:20
And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.
Numbers 30:5
But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, none of the vows or pledges with which she has bound herself are binding. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.
Numbers 30:8
But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.
Joshua 9:20
This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them."
John 8:32
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Acts 7:2
And Stephen declared: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually,.... That is, the priest or priests then ministering, who should bring new cakes and place them in the above order, having removed the old ones, which was done in this manner; four priests went in, two had in their hands the two rows (of bread), and two had in their hands two cups (of frankincense); four went before these, two to take away the two rows (of the old bread), and two to take away the two cups (of frankincense); and they that carried in stood in the north, and their faces to the south and they that brought out stood in the south, and their faces to the north; these drew away (the old bread) and they put them (the new), and the hand of the one was over against the hand of the other, as it is said, "before me continually",

Exodus 25:30 h; that is, at the same time the hands of the one were employed in taking away, the hands of the other were employed in setting on; so that there was always bread upon the table:

[being taken] from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant; God requiring it of them, and they agreeing to give it, as they did, either in meal or in money; for this was at the expense of the community.

h Menachot, c. 11. sect. 7.

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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