Leviticus 24:5

_AND THOU SHALT TAKE FINE FLOUR, AND BAKE TWELVE CAKES THEREOF: TWO TENTH DEALS SHALL BE IN ONE CAKE._ Take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes - for the showbread, as previously appointed (Exodus 25:30). Those cakes were baked by the Levites, the flour being furnished by the people (1 Chronicles 9:32; 1 Chronicles 23:29), oil, wine, and salt being the other ingredients (Leviticus 2:13). TWO TENTH DEALS - i:e., of an ephah, 13 1/2 lbs. 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 f

We now come to the third part of the external service of God, which will bring us to the end of our exposition of the Second Commandment. We have, then, now to treat of the sacred oblations, the first place amongst which I have thought it best to give to the loaves, which had their peculiar table opposite the candlestick on the north side, as we saw in the construction of the Tabernacle; for although the mention of them will recur elsewhere, yet, since they were offered separately, and placed before the Ark of the Covenant, as it were in God’s sight, they must not be treated of apart from the sacrifices. I have already explained that this was no ordinary symbol of God’s favor, when He descended familiarly to them, as if He were their messmate. They were called “the bread of faces,” (227) because they were placed before the eyes of God; and thus He made known His special favor, as if comi...

1-9 The loaves of bread typify Christ as the Bread of life, and the food of the souls of his people. He is the Light of his church, the Light of the world; in and through his word this light shines. By this light we discern the food prepared for our souls; and we should daily, but especially from sabbath to sabbath, feed thereon in our hearts with thanksgiving. And as the loaves were left in the sanctuary, so should we abide with God till he dismiss us....

Verse Leviticus 24:5. _BAKE TWELVE CAKES_] See the whole account of the _shew-bread_ in _Clarke's notes on "_Exodus 25:30_"_; and relative to the table on which they stood, the _golden candlestick_ and _silver trumpets_ carried in triumph to Rome, Exodus 25:31, Exodus 25:31....

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

EXPOSITION A connection between Leviticus 23:1, and Le Leviticus 24:1 is found by Keil in the fact that the oil for the holy lamps and the shewbread were offerings of the people, a sacrificial gift with which Israel was to serve the Lord continually. "The offering of oil, therefore, for the preparation of the candlestick, and that of fine flour for making the loaves to be placed before Jehovah, formed part of the service in which Israel sanctified its life and labour to the Lord its God, not only at the appointed festal periods, but every day; and the law is very appropriately appended to the sanctification of the sabbaths and feast days prescribed in Leviticus 23:1." But it is better to conside

AND THOU SHALT TAKE FINE FLOUR,.... Of wheat, and the finest of it: AND BAKE TWELVE CAKES THEREOF; answerable to the twelve tribes, as the Targum of Jonathan, which were typical of the spiritual Israel of God; TWO TENTH DEALS SHALL BE IN ONE CAKE; that is, two tenth parts of an ephah, which were two omers, one of which was as much as a man could eat in one day of the manna: so that one of these cakes was as much as two men could eat of bread in one day; each cake was ten hands' breadth long, five broad, and seven fingers its horns, or was so high g. g Menachot, c. 11. sect. 4....

2. PRIESTLY DUTIES: THE LIGHT AND THE SHEWBREAD CHAPTER 24:1-9 _ 1. The light (Leviticus 24:1)_ 2. The shewbread (Leviticus 24:5) This chapter is not disconnected from the preceding one as some claim; nor is it the work of a redactor as the critics teach. It is most beautifully linked with the dispensational foreshadowings we found in the feasts of Jehovah. Between Pentecost and the blowing of the trumpets there is, as stated before, a long period of time. When the church was formed, after the sheaf of the firstfruits had been waved, Israel was nationally set aside and night settled upon them. Maintained by the high priest, a light was to be kept shining continually from evening till morning; it was the light of the golden lampstand with its lamps. The lampstand typifie

THE SHEWBREAD (P). First mentioned in 1 Samuel 21:1 (_cf._ Mark 2:25 ff.), also 1 Kings 7:48 (_cf._ Exodus 25:30 *, Numbers 4:7). Putting food before the gods (as distinct from offerings) is a not infrequent element in pagan rites; _cf._ the Roman lectisternia; twelve cakes of bread are offered in a Babylonian ritual (_cf._ Isaiah 65:11; Jeremiah 7:18). Each of the twelve cake

TWO. Only one required for the ordinary meal offering (Exodus 29:40; Numbers 15:4; Numbers 28:9; Numbers 28:13, &c). TENTH DEALS. See App-51....