Leviticus 24:5

24:5 “You must take choice wheat flour ¹  and bake twelve loaves; ²  there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in ³  each loaf,

Leviticus 24:2

24:2 “Command the Israelites to bring ⁴  to you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually. ⁵ 

Leviticus 2:4

Processed Grain Offerings

2:4 “‘When you present an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must be made of ⁶  choice wheat flour baked into unleavened loaves ⁷  mixed with olive oil or ⁸  unleavened wafers smeared ⁹  with olive oil.

[24:5]  ¹ sn See the note on Lev 2:1.

[24:5]  ² tn Heb “and bake it twelve loaves”; KJV, NAB, NASB “cakes.”

[24:5]  ³ tn The words “of flour” are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[24:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “and let them take.” The simple vav (ו) on the imperfect/jussive form of the verb לָקַח (laqakh, “to take”) following the imperative (“Command”) indicates a purpose clause (“to bring…”).

[24:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “to cause to ascend a lamp continually.”

[2:4]  ⁶ tn The insertion of the words “it must be made of” is justified by the context and the expressed words “it shall be made of” in vv. 7 and 8 below.

[2:4]  ⁷ sn These “loaves” were either “ring-shaped” (HALOT 317 s.v. חַלָּה) or “perforated” (BDB 319 s.v. חַלָּה; cf. J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:184).

[2:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “and.” Here the conjunction vav (ו) has an alternative sense (“or”).

[2:4]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew word מְשֻׁחִים (mÿshukhim) translated here as “smeared” is often translated “anointed” in other contexts. Cf. TEV “brushed with olive oil” (CEV similar).