Discovery BoxLeviticus 24:6-9
Context24:6 and you must set them in two rows, six in a row, 1 on the ceremonially pure table before the Lord. 24:7 You must put pure frankincense 2 on each row, 3 and it will become a memorial portion 4 for the bread, a gift 5 to the Lord. 24:8 Each Sabbath day 6 Aaron 7 must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion 8 is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant. 24:9 It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion 9 from the gifts of the Lord.”
[24:6] 1 tn Heb “six of the row.”
[24:7] 2 tn This is not just any “incense” (קְטֹרֶת, qÿtoret; R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 3:913-16), but specifically “frankincense” (לְבֹנָה, lÿvonah; R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:756-57).
[24:7] 3 tn Heb “on [עַל, ’al] the row,” probably used distributively, “on each row” (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 395-96). Perhaps the frankincense was placed “with” or “along side of” each row, not actually on the bread itself, and was actually burned as incense to the
[24:7] 4 sn The “memorial portion” (אַזְכָרָה, ’azkharah) was normally the part of the grain offering that was burnt on the altar (see Lev 2:2 and the notes there), as opposed to the remainder, which was normally consumed by the priests (Lev 2:3; see the full regulations in Lev 6:14-23 [6:7-16 HT]).
[24:7] 5 sn See the note on Lev 1:9 regarding the term “gift.”
[24:8] 3 tn Heb “In the day of the Sabbath, in the day of the Sabbath.” The repetition is distributive. A few medieval Hebrew
[24:8] 4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Aaron) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[24:8] 5 tn The word “portion” is supplied in the translation here for clarity, to specify what “this” refers to.
[24:9] 4 tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; NRSV “a perpetual due.”
