Leviticus - 24:6



6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 24:6.

Differing Translations

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And thou shalt set them six and six one against another upon the most clean table before the Lord:
and thou hast set them two ranks (six in the rank) on the pure table before Jehovah,
And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.
And you shall arrange them, six on each side, upon the most pure table before the Lord.
Et pones eas in duobus ordinibus: seni ordines super mensam mundam coram Jehova.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Two rows, six on a row - Rather, two piles, six in a pile. On the table, see Exodus 25:23-30.

And thou shalt set them in two rows,.... The twelve cakes:
six on a row; not by the side of each other, but six upon one another:
upon the pure table; the shewbread table, so called because overlaid with pure gold, and kept clean and bright, Exodus 25:24,
before the Lord; for this stood in the holy place, in the same place as the candlestick did, which has the same position, Leviticus 24:4; of the mystical and typical sense of these cakes; see Gill on Exodus 25:30.

Two rows - Not one above another, but one beside another, as the frankincense put upon each, Leviticus 24:7, shews.

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