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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Leviticus 24:5 - 24:5
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take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes - for the showbread, as previously appointed (Exo 25:30). Those cakes were baked by the Levites, the flour being furnished by the people (1Ch 9:32; 1Ch 23:29), oil, wine, and salt being the other ingredients (Lev 2:13).
two tenth deals - that is, of an ephah - thirteen and a half pounds weight each; and on each row or pile of cakes some frankincense was strewed, which, being burnt, led to the showbread being called “an offering made by fire.” Every Sabbath a fresh supply was furnished; hot loaves were placed on the altar instead of the stale ones, which, having lain a week, were removed, and eaten only by the priests, except in cases of necessity (1Sa 21:3-6; also Luk 6:3, Luk 6:4).