Leviticus 24:5
Good News Translation
Take twenty-four pounds of flour and bake twelve loaves of bread.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall take choice flour, and bake twelve loaves of it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.

Contemporary English Version
Use your finest flour to bake twelve loaves of bread about two kilograms each,

New American Bible
You shall take bran flour and bake it into twelve cakes, using two tenths of an ephah of flour for each cake.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt take also fine flour, and shalt bake twelve loaves thereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf.

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Thou shalt take also fine flour, and shalt bake twelve loaves thereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf.

Leviticus 24:3,6,7 Without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the covenant. And Aaron shall set them from evening until morning before the Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations. . . .

1 Samuel 21:6 The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken away from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up.

the urgent necessity alone justifying the act. The Hebrew signifies bread of faces, or, of the face.

Exodus 25:30 And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in my sight always.

Exodus 40:23 Setting there in order the loaves of proposition, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

1 Kings 18:31 And he took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel shall be thy name.

1 Samuel 21:4,5 And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women? . . .

Matthew 12:4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only?

Acts 26:7 Unto which, our twelve tribes, serving night and day, hope to come. For which hope, O king, I am accused by the Jews.

James 1:1 James, the servant of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

Context
The Showbread
5Thou shalt take also fine flour, and shalt bake twelve loaves thereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf.6And thou shalt set them six and six, one against another, upon the most clean table before the Lord.…
Cross References
Hebrews 9:2
For there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the candlesticks and the table and the setting forth of loaves, which is called the Holy.

Exodus 25:30
And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in my sight always.

Exodus 39:36
The candlestick, the lamps, and the furniture of them, with the oil:

Exodus 40:23
Setting there in order the loaves of proposition, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Numbers 4:7
They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it:

1 Samuel 21:4
And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?

1 Samuel 21:6
The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken away from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up.

1 Chronicles 9:32
And some of the sons of Caath their brethren, were over the loaves of proposition, to prepare always new for every sabbath.

1 Chronicles 23:29
And the priests have the charge of the loaves of proposition, and of the sacrifice of fine flour, and of the unleavened cakes, and of the fryingpan, and of the roasting, and of every weight and measure.

2 Chronicles 13:11
And they offer holocausts to the Lord, every day, morning and evening, and incense made according to the ordinance of the law, and the loaves are set forth on a most clean table, and there is with us the golden candlestick, and the lamps thereof, to be lighted always in the evening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord our God, whom you have forsaken.

Nehemiah 10:33
For the loaves of proposition, and for the continual sacrifice, and for a continual holocaust on the sabbaths, on the new moons, on the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offering: that atonement might be made for Israel, and for every use of the house of our God.

Leviticus 24:4
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