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On the pure golden table, Aaron arranges exactly twelve equal loaves in two rows of six, with one small frankincense vessel beside each row. On the Sabbath, Aaron and his adult sons receive the previous loaves for a holy-place meal. Exact 6+6 count; no extra bread, animal, blood, ordinary dining room, or visible deity.
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Leviticus 24:5-9

Twelve loaves before the sanctuary

Lamp, Bread, and Equal Justice · Leviticus 24

Story guide: On the pure golden table, Aaron arranges exactly twelve equal loaves in two rows of six, with one small frankincense vessel beside each row. On the Sabbath, Aaron and his adult sons receive the previous loaves for a holy-place meal. Exact 6+6 count; no extra bread, animal, blood, ordinary dining room, or visible deity.

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5And you shall take fine flour and bake it into twelve loaves; each loaf shall be of two-tenths of an ephah.

6And you shall place them in two rows, six in each row, on the pure table before Yahweh.

7And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, and it shall be for the bread as a memorial portion, a food offering to Yahweh.

8Every Sabbath day he shall arrange it before Yahweh continually, from the sons of Israel as an everlasting covenant.

9It shall belong to Aaron and to his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, because it is most holy to him from the food offerings of Yahweh, a permanent statute.

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