Leviticus 24:6

6 Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure [gold] table before the Lord.^[a]

Leviticus 24:6 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 24:6

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).

Leviticus 24:6 In-Context

4 He must regularly tend the lamps on the pure [gold] lampstand in the Lord's presence.

5 "Take fine flour and bake it into 12 loaves; each loaf is to be made with four quarts.

6 Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure [gold] table before the Lord.

7 Place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread and a fire offering to the Lord.

8 The bread is to be set out before the Lord every Sabbath day as a perpetual covenant obligation on the part of the Israelites.

Footnotes

• [a]. Ex 25:23-30; 40:23; 1 Sm 21:6; 1 Ch 23:29; 2 Ch 13:11; Mt 12:1-8