1 Chronicles 23:29 Cross References - NSB

²⁹ They were in charge of the bread set out on the table, the flour for the grain offerings, the unleavened wafers, the baking and the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.

³⁰ »The table should be placed in front of the Covenant Box. There is always to be the sacred bread offered to me for the table.

⁴ »‘If your grain offering has been baked in an oven, it must be rings of unleavened bread made of flour mixed with olive oil or wafers of unleavened bread brushed with oil. ⁵ »‘If your grain offering is prepared in a frying pan, it, too, will be unleavened bread made of flour mixed with oil. ⁶ »‘Break it into pieces and pour oil over it. It is a grain offering. ⁷ »‘When your grain offering is prepared in a skillet, it will be made of flour with oil.

²⁰ »This is the offering Aaron and his sons are to present to Jehovah on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. ²¹ »Prepare it with oil on a griddle. Stir it well and bring it. Present the grain offering in baked pieces as a soothing aroma to Jehovah. ²² »The anointed priest who will be in his place among his sons will offer it. By a long lasting ordinance it shall be entirely offered up in smoke to Jehovah. ²³ »Every grain offering made by a priest must be completely burned. It must not be eaten.«

⁹ »‘Every grain offering, whether baked in an oven or prepared in a skillet or a frying pan, belongs to the priest who offers it.

³⁵ »‘Do not be corrupt when administering justice concerning length, weight, or measuring liquid. ³⁶ »‘Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.

⁵ »Take flour and bake twelve rings of bread. Each ring will contain four quarts of flour. ⁶ »Put them in two stacks of six each on the gold table in Jehovah’s presence. ⁷ »Place pure incense on top of each stack. The incense on the bread will be a reminder, an offering by fire to Jehovah. ⁸ »Every day of worship (sabbath day) a priest must arrange the bread in Jehovah’s presence. It is a long lasting reminder of my promise to the Israelites. ⁹ »The bread will belong to Aaron and his sons. They will eat it in a holy place. It is very holy, set apart from Jehovah’s offering by fire. This is a long lasting law.«

⁵⁰ The silver Moses collected for the firstborn Israelites weighed thirty-four pounds using the standard weight of the holy place.

⁴⁸ Solomon made all the furnishings for Jehovah’s Temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which the bread of the presence was placed,

²⁹ Others were assigned to take care of the furnishings and all the other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the flour and wine, and the oil, incense and spices. ³⁰ But some of the priests took care of mixing the spices. ³¹ A Levite named Mattithiah, the firstborn son of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with the responsibility for baking the offering bread. ³² Some of their Kohathite brothers were in charge of preparing for every Sabbath the bread set out on the table. ³³ Those who were musicians, heads of Levite families, stayed in the rooms of the temple and were exempt from other duties because they were responsible for the work day and night. ³⁴ All these were heads of Levite families, chiefs as listed in their genealogy, and they lived in Jerusalem.

¹¹ »Every morning and every evening they offer him incense and animal sacrifices burned whole. They present the offerings of bread on a table that is ritually clean, and every evening they light the lamps on the gold lamp stand. We do what Jehovah has commanded! But you have abandoned him!

¹⁸ Then they went to King Hezekiah. They said: »We have made Jehovah’s entire temple clean. This includes the altar for burnt offerings, all its utensils, the table for the rows of bread and all its utensils,

³³ For the holy bread, and for the regular meal offering and the regular burned offering on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and the fixed feasts, and for the sin-offerings to take away the sin of Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

⁴ »He entered into the house of God, and he and his companions ate the showbread (holy bread), which it was not lawful for them to eat. It was only lawful for the priests.

² A tabernacle was set up. The first room was called »the Holy Place.« It contained the lamp stand and table and the consecrated bread.