OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 24:5

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“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.

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Verse 5. Bake. The family of Caath had to perform this office, 1 Par 9:32. 23:29. Menochius.—Incense. Septuagint add, “salt.” Villalpend also places wine on the table. B. iv. 57.—Memorial for the Lord to bless his people, and for them to make their oblations to him as to the living God, from whom all blessings are derived. Bible.—The incense was burnt instead of the bread, when fresh loaves were placed there. Calmet.

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1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

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