Tuesday, January 24, 2017

The Oil and Bread Set Before the Lord

The Lord said to Moses,
"Command the Israelites to bring you
clear oil of pressed olives for the light
so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.
Outside the curtain of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting,
Aaron is to tend the lamps before the Lord
from evening till morning, continually.
This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord
must be tended continually.

"Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread,
using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.
Set them in two rows, six in each row,
on the table of pure gold before the Lord.
Along each row put some pure incense
as a memorial portion to represent the bread
and to be an offering made to the Lord by fire.
This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly,
Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites,
as a lasting covenant.
It belongs to Aaron and his sons,
who are to eat it in a holy place,
because it is a most holy part of their regular share
of the offerings made to the Lord by fire."

(Leviticus 24:1-9)

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