Leviticus 24:8
in Leviticus 24Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.
KJV
Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
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This verse in Leviticus 24
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd this may be here called an everlasting covenant, not only because it was to endure as long as the Jewish polity stood, but also because this was to stand everlastingly, or continually, and therefore the new cakes were first brought before the old were taken away.
This site's exposition
Every sabbath he shall set it in order
on Leviticus 24:8-9
The bread is changed every seventh day and the arrangement is called an everlasting covenant, so a loaf that goes stale in a week carries a word that does not. What comes off the table belongs to Aaron and his sons, who eat it in the holy place as most holy. David ate that bread at Nob when he was hungry and running from Saul in 1 Samuel 21:6, and Jesus argued from the case at Matthew 12:3-4 that the priests themselves were blameless when the sabbath bent for a man in need.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
The loaves are properly commanded to be changed before the Lord every sabbath day. For surely the loaves that were set out on the table of the Lord through the six days of work are exchanged for new loaves on the sabbath when all the …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Hence some infer that this show-bread, which was set on the table on the sabbath, was intended as a memorial of the manna wherewith they were fed in the wilderness. Christ's ministers should provide new bread for his house every sabbath day, the production of their fresh studies in the scripture, that their proficiency may appear to all, 1 Tim. iv.
Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually,....
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּי֨וֹם | beyom | on [the] day of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַשַּׁבָּ֜ת | hashabat | the sabbath | H7676 → | 110 times |
| בְּי֣וֹם | beyom | on [the] day of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַשַּׁבָּ֗ת | hashabat | the sabbath | H7676 → | 110 times |
| יַֽעַרְכֶ֛נּוּ | yaarkhenu | he will arrange it | H6186 → | 74 times |
| לִפְנֵ֥י | lifnei | <to> before | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| תָּמִ֑יד | tamid | continually | H8548 → | 104 times |
| מֵאֵ֥ת | meet | from with | H854 → | 929 times |
| בְּנֵֽי־ | benei- | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| בְּרִ֥ית | berit | a covenant of | H1285 → | 284 times |
| עוֹלָֽם׃ | olam | perpetuity | H5769 → | 438 times |
בְּי֨וֹםon [the] day of
beyomH3117 →2304 times
הַשַּׁבָּ֜תthe sabbath
hashabatH7676 →110 times
בְּי֣וֹםon [the] day of
beyomH3117 →2304 times
הַשַּׁבָּ֗תthe sabbath
hashabatH7676 →110 times
יַֽעַרְכֶ֛נּוּhe will arrange it
yaarkhenuH6186 →74 times
לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before
lifneiH6440 →2123 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
תָּמִ֑ידcontinually
tamidH8548 →104 times
מֵאֵ֥תfrom with
meetH854 →929 times
בְּנֵֽי־[the] people of
benei-H1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
בְּרִ֥יתa covenant of
beritH1285 →284 times
עוֹלָֽם׃perpetuity
olamH5769 →438 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Chronicles 2:4Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making…
it leads to
- Exodus 25:30
And place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 30:7
And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.
- 2 Chronicles 2:1
Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
- Exodus 25:30
Through
1 Chronicles 9:32Some of their Kohathite brothers were responsible for preparing the rows of the showbread every Sabbath.
it leads to
- Leviticus 24:5–8
You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Leviticus 24:5–8
Through
1 Chronicles 23:29as well as for the rows of the showbread, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baking, the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
it leads to
- Leviticus 19:35–36
You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
- Leviticus 6:20–23
“This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must present to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half…
- Leviticus 24:5–9
You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
- Leviticus 2:4–7
Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.
- Leviticus 19:35–36
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Bede, On the Tabernacle 1.7; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.