Leviticus 24:5-9

Contemporary English Version

The Sacred Bread

The Lord said:

^5 (A) Use your finest flour to bake twelve loaves of bread about two kilograms each, ⁶ then take them into the sacred tent and lay them on the gold table in two rows of six loaves. ⁷ Alongside each row put some pure incense that will be sent up by fire in place of the bread as an offering to me. ⁸ 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. ^9 (B) This bread will always belong to Aaron and his family; it is very holy because it was offered to me, and it must be eaten in a holy place.^[a]